The Look & Sound of Leadership Taming Meetings
Aug 4, 2016
A practical four-meeting model for turning tedious gatherings into focused rituals. Short daily huddles, weekly tactical check-ins, monthly strategic deep dives, and quarterly off-site reviews are explored. Tips for adapting the structure to global teams and building meeting skills are highlighted.
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Coach Uses Lencioni Model On Global Team
- Tom Henschel recounts coaching Sirhan's new global management team that struggled with inefficient weekly meetings.
- Sirhan and Tom sketched Lencioni's four-meeting pyramid to diagnose meeting problems and resistance to daily huddles.
Split Status Updates Into Five Minute Huddles
- Do separate status updates from decision-making by creating a short Daily Check-In huddle limited to five to ten minutes.
- Huddles are quick standing updates where everyone speaks briefly and stays sharp, improving listening and forward thinking.
Run Weekly Tacticals Without Fixed Agendas
- Try running Weekly Tactical meetings without a fixed agenda so the team chooses topics and resolves short-term issues in the meeting.
- This forces the team to prioritize work, decide whose items matter, and learn where individual work intersects team priorities.
