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What meetings reveal about your company culture.

Meetings are opportunities, they’re not just about satisfying an objective.

Want to get a quick read on your company culture? Just look at your meetings. It’s all there: interpersonal relationships, power dynamics, team camaraderie. For many organizations, meetings are a reflection of the company’s broader processes and health. It’s no surprise, then, that the most effective teams have transformed meetings into a force for alignment, engagement, and efficiency.

We hear it all the time: better meetings can transform team culture. We call these “10X Meetings.”

All good meetings have an objective. But viewing meetings only this way misses the bigger picture. You have a far greater opportunity on your hands. Just think: a meeting is the number one place for live, real-time interpersonal communication at work, a primary channel for debate and discussion.

10X Meetings strive to be the time and place where culture is demonstrated and set. They acknowledge that a meeting’s objective must be met, but it’s also an opportunity to strengthen team alignment, influence team culture, and demonstrate strong leadership. Having the team together (physical or online) and focused on one objective provides the ultimate forum.

In other words, the benefits of 10X Meetings continue well past the end of the calendar event.

Does anybody have any tips that they use for better meetings? Drop them below!!

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    Hi Josh,
    someone in the news was talking about meetings as microcosms of company culture, which is a nice way to put it.

    We wanted to automate basic principles of meeting hygiene and so we built Aimful.io. Aimful augments your Google Calendar and changes the meeting invite experience. We like to say we are helping you to protect your time. If you have a minute, we would be grateful for your feedback!

    www.aimful.io

    Jiri

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