Hi everyone,
as for everyone in the pandemic the whole exchange with co-workers in my large enterprise became a fully digital experience. However, many meetings are unnecessary, lengthy, not well prepared or come with other flaws.
Given the above shortcomings often nevertheless no feedback is provided to the meeting organizer(s) since hierarchy, laziness or lack of interest prevent this from happening.
I have been thinking about a platform where after each meeting a very short feedback from each participant is being collected through simple attributes (e.g. "great meeting", "too long", "lack of structure", ...). At the end of e.g. a month each user would receive a meeting karma score with their individual scores and thus be able to identify areas of improvement. What do you think about such an idea?
Rating an employee in meeting is kind of discouraging and public shaming.
We are also working on the meeting problem but think the solution has to be alternatives to meetings. For many meetings improving them isn't the right direction, you have to get at the root cause of why the meeting is happening.
I get the intent and it's a positive one, but I think bad meetings must be fought by providing better alternatives (ex, a "dev-only" meeting that solves a problem in 15 minutes compared to a "full-team" meeting lasting 1h. Management usually loves this kind of things).
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It is hard for people to be candid with coworkers unless the company culture is ready for it.
I recommend you to read Netflix‘s CEO no rules book. It's pretty extensive about this topic
Very rare haha