The Story of One Impish Meeting
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Gossip eventually became a plan. By the end of the year, I was literally on the agenda, every Monday. My qualities were irresistible – short, concise, clear, planned. Instead of the traditional 15 minutes of fame, I got exactly 30 minutes.
I was thrilled with how seriously everyone took me. They tell me regularly what my load will be, I even have my own automated task. Every Monday I am fully loaded with information and I can’t wait for 12 to strike. I got a real introduction after the new year.
Everyone arrived on time and we got down to business. My 30 minutes of fame stretched to the length of a feature film. I understand that they couldn’t wait for me, but a show like that really took me by storm. But I know that starting over is not easy and the first month will be a battle against time. Everyone is definitely giving it their all.
January has passed and I’m still the headliner of a program that goes on like a football game. The getting used to period is over, but my beautiful features are still only on paper. I hope it doesn’t take a whole quarter to give me back my promised 30 minutes of fame. Otherwise, I will probably have to say that I refuse to work under such conditions. A meeting must have her principles.
Sounds Familiar?
A week seems like a short interval, but if it’s information that needs to be passed on and discussed at a management meeting, then it’s like a period for writing a chronicle.
That is why our meeting is so unhappy. Despite our best efforts, we still get over the one hour meeting time limit. Sales has great information from communication with potential and current customers, and we don’t want anyone to lose a good feeling. Tech needs to be pumped about what’s happening in our most important department, and marketing in turn bombards us with what it needs from us to communicate well externally. And now even videos.
Even though we have everything written down in advance and we’ve even gotten to the point where we all go over our notes BEFORE, it’s still not enough. We cut a maximum of minutes, not the dozens of minutes that are simply extra.
We even have a whole week to gradually write down the points and we don’t even have to put them in the record ourselves, our lovely COO has it firmly under her thumb. But we still manage to cut only valuable minutes.
In fact, the meetings are so long that even if we have lunch right before them, it is already time for a snack after them. As if the management meetings were a wormhole in the stomach.
Our fight is not over and we will definitely not give up. Although it will take longer than we expected to get used to the short time horizon, we look forward to the moment when our meeting says, “It’s so nice to have 30 minutes each week.”
