Meeting Management: IPAD
In my earlier post on meeting management I wrote on how to keep meetings shorter and frequent to get the most out of meetings. Shorter meetings bring a sense of urgency. Remember people will work their butts off to ship a product on time. In this post I want to talk on other aspects of how to get the most out of a meeting. There are many issues related to it but I will just focus on three of them and they are very simple to remember. The principle is known as IPAD principle. Ok. Very simple just remember IPAD. It is very simple. IPAD means I will come to the meeting P repared with an A genda and leave with a D eliverable (read outcome) . These three aspects of meeting ( P reparation, A genda, and D eliverable) are very important if you want to get something productive out of a meeting. So what do I stand for? It stands for Responsibility . It means I will be held responsible for not having thes...