From the course: Improve Meetings Using Lean Thinking
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Start with the invitation
From the course: Improve Meetings Using Lean Thinking
Start with the invitation
- Imagine opening up your email, and seeing yet another invitation that says meeting, oh no, not another meeting, right? What if I told you that how you use your meeting invitation could be a powerful tool? In lean management, we talk a lot about respect for people and eliminating waste, and I can tell you that nowhere is this more visible than how we approach meetings, and it all starts with that tiny, often overlooked piece of real estate called the subject line. Think of your meeting invitation subject line as a pledge, or a commitment to your team's most valuable resources, their time and mental energy. If you're in a situation where time is sucked up by too many boring and endless meetings, just using the M word can create a negative feeling. So what can you do to change that to a more valuable response? To show respect, here are three things you can leverage in your invitation subject line. Number one, use words that describe an action like to decide, to create, to solve, or to…
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