Stevea Robbins here.

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today's topic is how to lead a meeting when you're not the official facilitator.

Hi, this is Sydney from the Midwest, and I'd like to know what I can do if my team leader doesn't want to try

some new meeting ideas. I love those suggestions, and so did a few of my coworkers, and we really

wanted to try them out, and our team leader said, no, our meetings are different, and they're not.

So what can we do to kind of start sneaking these methods in so that we're not united

in hate, but genuinely enjoy seeing each other and feel like we're accomplishing something.

Thanks.

The quick and dirty tip is to ask your team leader questions to help you prepare

and make sure the questions will end up back leading your team leader to prepare as well.

Oh boy, I just love meetings.

No, I don't. I hate meetings. And it sounds like you do too. Our meetings are different,

says your team leader. Yeah, right. Let me guess. You show up not knowing why you're meeting.

You take way too long to do way too little, and you leave

not quite knowing what to do. People are bored, the same people dominate every time, and often

what's said may be interesting, but it isn't relevant enough to justify time away from your job.

The whole thing feels like wasted time, just like meetings at every other company in existence. And your team leader thinks

your meetings are different? That's the ultimate. Everyone thinks their team meetings are different,

and pretty much everyone is wrong. You're like Lex Luther's henchman as he plots to take over the

world. You may be brilliant in your own right, but his ego makes it necessary

for you to play the part of a bumbling fool. You need to find a way to guide the meeting without

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