Welcome back to the Look and Sound of Leadership, an ongoing series of

executive coaching tips designed to help you be perceived in the workplace the

way you want to be perceived.

I'm Tom Henschel, your executive coach,

and today we're talking about taming meetings.

Sir Han led a global management team that was relatively new.

Since forming just over a year ago, they had come together three times.

I'd facilitated each of the events.

Sirhan and I agreed, the team was made I'd facilitated each of the events.

Sirhan and I agreed the team was made up of whip-smart individuals who weren't yet working

together as a leadership team.

Recently I had gathered feedback from the team about itself.

A major issue came up repeatedly,

the inefficiencies of the weekly meetings.

Now in our coaching session, Sironne said,

I'm willing to do things differently if you've got any ideas, Tom.

I answered, when it comes to improving meetings, I use ideas from Patrick Lenzioni.

I knew Sirhan would recognize the name.

During the team events we had done together, I'd used a few tools from

Lenzioni's enormously popular book The Five Disfun

of a team.

Seron had liked them. Now I told him.

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