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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I-Hart Radio.

Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is that at the end of any meeting, you should go through the action steps everyone needs to take before you meet again.

This quick and simple step will increase the likelihood that you make the progress you plan to make between meetings.

So for better or for worse, many professional and volunteer teams rely on meetings to create

accountability. Nobody wants to be sitting across the table from coworkers and acknowledge that they haven't completed the tasks that were assigned to them.

So, they generally do the tasks they are supposed to do before the next meeting.

Now, you might argue that colleagues should be accountable to each other even when they are not meeting face to face,

and that you shouldn't have to waste time sitting in meetings when there's nothing to actually discuss.

And I would totally agree with you.

I truly dislike the inefficiency of having people sit in meetings

just to see that, yep, everyone is still doing their jobs. But we live in the real world,

and I know that many workplaces have a meeting-heavy culture, where scheduling a meeting is the way you get your tasks to rise to the top of people's priority lists.

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