#36: Daniel Tardy—Nine Strategies That Will Make Your Meetings More Productive
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🗓️ 20 March 2017
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Why are most meetings so awful?
A lot of us leave every meeting feeling like we've wasted our time and gotten nowhere on a problem -- only to get back to our desks farther behind on our "real jobs."
But with a little intention, we can make meetings not just productive, but also energizing and fun.
On this episode of the Building a Story Brand podcast, Donald Miller sits down with Daniel Tardy the SVP of EntreLeadership, Dave Ramsey's business coaching division. They walk through nine strategies we can use that will make our meetings more productive and more fun. With this advice, you can lead dynamic meetings that bring out the best in your team and actually move the needle for your business.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Building and Story Brand podcast where we believe if you can fuse, you'll lose. |
| 0:12.4 | Noise is the enemy and creating a |
| 0:14.6 | clear message is the best way to grow your business I'm your host Donald Miller |
| 0:18.6 | and I'm joined by my co-host J.J. Peterson hi J.J. |
| 0:21.3 | Hello Don I know that I'm going to say hi J. J. J.P. said, hi, J. J. Hello, Don. I know that I'm going to say hi J. |
| 0:24.0 | J. I just get excited. |
| 0:25.0 | And you preempted me. |
| 0:26.0 | I don't even have to record that. |
| 0:28.0 | We just play the ones from the previous podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | And you know, it's the same thing. |
| 0:32.0 | I know, I just got excited. |
| 0:33.0 | What is your meeting style? I mean everybody has a meeting style. |
| 0:39.0 | Yeah, like when you meet with people who work with you and things like that like projects and stuff like that? |
| 0:43.3 | Yeah yeah what's your meeting style? Are you an engager? Are you the standing guy? You want to be sure? No. |
| 0:48.8 | Go two hours. Yeah. The more time. No I don't like I don't like long meetings. I like meetings with food |
| 0:54.6 | I will tell you that right now it's called dinner if it needs to be then yeah yeah |
| 0:58.8 | and give me some cookies I always like to have snacks in my meetings and you know you hear kind of these big |
| 1:04.4 | companies who do like these quick five minute meetings and everything and I know how |
| 1:07.8 | necessary those are but for me why take meetings as an opportunity to get to know people a little bit more |
| 1:13.5 | connect talk about story how's the day going and then get into business that's |
| 1:17.9 | ridiculous I know for you it is that is not my meeting style. I know. You and I are very opposite in that when it comes to that. |
| 1:26.5 | But it's important and I've learned over time that I have to understand that |
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