Improve Meetings Using Lean Thinking
.MP4, AVC, 1280x720, 30 fps | English, AAC, 2 Ch | 39m | 140 MB
Instructor: Sam Yankelevitch
.MP4, AVC, 1280x720, 30 fps | English, AAC, 2 Ch | 39m | 140 MB
Instructor: Sam Yankelevitch
Transform your meetings from time wasters into opportunities for boosting teamwork and innovation. In this course, join lean expert Sam Yankelevitch as he outlines how to cut out meetings that don’t add value, create a safe space so everyone contributes, hold meetings at the place where the action happens, and keep meetings focused on what matters most.
Learning objectives
- Explain the need for cross-functional participation in meetings to ensure diversity of thought and collaboration so that complex problems can be effectively addressed and achieve innovation.
- Outline important meeting rules to create an environment where teams can cocreate and innovate.
- Recognize the importance of the person leading the meeting to stay on track, enable open collaboration, and keep to the allotted time.
- Describe the team values required, such as trust, respect, and psychological safety, that enable the collective wisdom required to achieve breakthrough solutions.
- Illustrate what and how to communicate about an upcoming meeting so that participants come prepared, and the time invested is effective and efficient.
- Recognize the benefits of having meetings directly at the place where the action happens instead of in board rooms.
- Contrast the advantages of inclusive meetings where everyone’s voice is heard versus ones where a certain group or person dominates.
- Understand how conflict is a natural condition where diversity of thought exists and how to experiment together to achieve breakthroughs.