Questions to Lend Focus
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If you keep going to meetings that are full of ideas that never go anywhere, you have the power to make the meeting more productive, even when you aren’t leading the meeting. Simply ask a naive question or provide a polite relevancy challenge. “Help us understand how your comment connects to this topic.” If items continue to recur with no decisions, you might offer “What might be the best next step to make this happen?” You may want to suggest a “parking lot” to list off-topic ideas on a chart to hold the ideas for a more appropriate time.
Use your time together productively to encourage one topic at a time to produce results and make meetings more productive.
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