Conduct Work Sessions, Not Meetings

Don’t schedule meetings. Conduct work sessions instead.

Meetings are one-way conversations or presentations with low rates of information transfer. A work session is an open dialogue about an idea that drives to a result.

For meetings, attendees have to attend. For work sessions, they have to prepare and participate.

Meetings have an agenda (if the organizer prepared one) and minutes (if the organizer sends them). Work sessions have a purpose and a deliverable.