*Whew*
Yesterday was meeting day.
Some of you will surely scoff at my so-called “Meeting Day”: I had two meetings. I normally have about two meetings…. a month. Wait: scratch that. I have them so infrequently that I can’t properly characterize their frequency.
Funny thing is: I had two on Friday, too.
I write about them because they were so incredibly different — they were held as pairs, so Monday’s meetings were both follow-ups to the Friday meetings — two of them I chaired and the other two were by someone else. After the first meeting I ran, I actually had someone tell me:
Wow, great meeting! I love meetings like this; ones where we actually get things.. done.
I’m very direct about a lot of things. I had to schedule the implementation of our SCM suite at one of our development shops, and I wanted dates. I had all the right players there: a VP, his software lead, the team doing the install and config, the trainer, the lead trainees, and the hardware/admin guy.
When I started working down the agenda I’d prepared in OmniOutliner (Note: I hate it when you invite me to a meeting w/o presenting so much as an agenda), I launched iCal and started assigning dates like a madman.
The kicker? I got it done in the hour I’d assigned.
I’ll save my discussion on respecting other people’s time for another post.