Enjoy the day. But Make sure whatever you put into this day, you put into every other day.
When someone brings up a PowerPoint at a meeting what’s your first thought? How many slides until it’s over? How long is this going to take? What template did they use? Why are they using transitions? What value is this bringing? Amazon has an infamous no Powerpoint policy, does it work? Does everyone remember everything they need to say? What if instead of having to talk about how to do something, you showed them what…
Is it the person who called it? The one with the most seniority? The person who calls the meeting isn’t necessarily the one who’s going to lead it. Their role was to get everyone together, but who leads it? What are you discussing? What’s the problem you’re trying to solve? Start there, that’s your leader.
Does someone need to take minutes in every meeting? That’s a job for a bot, a transcript, and an email. Don’t put someone in charge of writing minutes when they could be contributing so much more to the meeting at hand.
How many times have you shown up to the next meeting with no one having done their follow-ups for the next meeting? Next time it happens, that person gets no follow-ups, delegate to someone else who gets theirs done. If no one is getting follow-ups done, don’t assign them – sounds bad – but if no one’s doing what you need them to, then either you have the wrong roster in the meeting that cares…