What if…your leadership coach said managers’ meetings should focus on the future?

Would you like to come away from your monthly management meetings feeling inspired and energised, confident your team will achieve success and it all agreed in less than an hour?

If your answer to these questions is “yes”, here’s a further query from an experienced strategy consultant.

Why not start the new financial year, or second quarter of 2009, with a new agenda for your management meetings. Adopting the Advance Meeting Agenda will mean setting aside no more than an hour to get through the following:

• 90 Second Update – the three achievements/learns/ headlines/wins of the past month

• Three Minute Department Spotlight – one department per month

• Number One Priorities – top issues per department

• Main Statistics from the Key Performance Indicators – and the action points which follow

• Check in on the Vision, Mission and Goals – what do we need to be better at?

• The Red Flag – the thing/s I need help with this month

• Pause Minute - what I’ve got out of today.

Items and issues that only affect one manager or department should be dealt with outside these meetings, in your weekly 1-2-1s.

If you’d like further help or guidance on how to get the most out of your monthly Advance Meetings from an objective, impartial business mentor and guide, you can contact me at richard.bosworth@thewhatifspecialist.com or follow @richardwhatif on Twitter