The Best Meetings of Your Life 3: "Pushing" People

Basic meeting principles? Check.

An understanding of how to handle conflict? Check.

Now, we are primed to tackle the last bit: how to push people to do their best thinking in meetings, ensuring people are level 7+ contributors, thus ensuring we have a potent and successful meeting,…thus ensuring we don’t have a bunch of meetings.

That’s a lot of thusses, but it works, right?

Let’s dive in.

This one is absolutely critical to forward to your team with your own thoughts.

Advanced Meeting Tools: How to push people

Remember: meetings are about topics, not about the people in the meeting.

This is something every single level 1-6 attendee forgets (read the first post if you aren’t yet familiar with these levels). Levels 1-3 think meetings are about themselves, and they are antisocial, combative, and difficult. Levels 4-6 think meetings are about the group’s happiness, and they are passive, accommodating, and afraid to push and create any semblance of unease. But level 7-10 attendees crush meetings because they are actually pushing themselves, and each other, to be at their best.

It might take reading that paragraph 3 or 4 times for it to fully sink in. It is absolutely mind blowing how many people show up to meetings under the pretense that they, their team, or people’s comfort can and should trump the topic of the meeting.

Today’s topic is how we can learn to push, and do it the right way, so our meetings become intelligent and efficient, so we don’t need so many of them, and so our team authentically grows together because of how smart and cohesive they are.

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