EET Meetings

As many of you know, through the fall I've been looking at all the meetings with EET and changing things up a bit in some situations. The purpose is to ensure that the meetings are planned, necessary, and purposeful. They also need to be as frequent as necessary with the right people at the table. Meetings suck up a lot of resources, so all of you at all levels should be thinking about the meetings you are involved with and asking yourselves questions like this:

• Is the meeting necessary? Do we need to meet more - or less - or not at all?
• Am I always prepared for meetings?
• Is there a planned agenda?
• What's the purpose for the meeting? Is it possible to provide information in different ways so that meetings may be unnecessary or shorter?
• And here is a link to more info on meetings (thanks Tyler!): http://the99percent.com/tips/5593/measure-meetings-with-action
  

The visual above shows the more structured meetings within EET. I've either asked - or will be asking - the people who chair these meetings to help to develop short terms of reference for each one.