{"id":1729,"date":"2017-05-10T10:55:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T10:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpblog.indigobusiness.co.uk\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2024-03-04T14:33:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T14:33:45","slug":"ever-wanted-to-just-get-up-and-walk-out-of-a-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpblog.indigobusiness.co.uk\/ever-wanted-to-just-get-up-and-walk-out-of-a-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Ever wanted to just get up and walk out of a meeting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Ragini Krishnadas<a href=\"https:\/\/wpblog.indigobusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/rsz_thinkstockphotos-522148401.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1730 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wpblog.indigobusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/rsz_thinkstockphotos-522148401-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Frankly, I don't know why I called this meeting.&quot;\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpblog.indigobusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/rsz_thinkstockphotos-522148401-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wpblog.indigobusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/rsz_thinkstockphotos-522148401-357x300.jpg 357w, https:\/\/wpblog.indigobusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/rsz_thinkstockphotos-522148401.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meetings consume huge amounts of time for most of us,\u00a0our customers tell us that these are often the least productive elements of their day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThat was so worthwhile!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When was the last time you walked out of a meeting and said, \u201cThat was a fantastic, productive meeting\u201d? Most of us can count these on one hand. Normally, we experience meetings that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drag on forever, everyone sits fiddling or doodling on their note pads \u2013 wondering, \u201cWhy am I even here?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Are hijacked, with a strong personality ensuring they are heard or taking the meeting off subject and agenda.<\/li>\n<li>Evolve into a meeting about a meeting, there was no decision and you are going to sit through it all again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Why people dread meetings&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chances are that the meeting will end up without decisions being made. Turning into a complete waste of everybody\u2019s time and you walk away with a new \u2018date\u2019 for the next meeting!<\/p>\n<p>Outside of work, I help organise dance events and shows. We have one chairperson attempting to structure and run the meeting with everyone else either shouting their views or not expressing anything at all. Most people leave wondering why they even bothered to attend! I\u2019ve found that because we are allowing the loudest perspective to be heard, we are limiting, sometimes quashing, the input and ideas from others. We are finding that attendee numbers are dropping and most meetings do not end with a positive outcome.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve tried several tools like delegating tasks and pre-planning to try and achieve a smooth and successful meeting. However, none of these are foolproof. We needed to be able to add a structure to our meetings that would:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shorten meetings and make them more productive.<\/li>\n<li>Offer a process that would ensure we could investigate decisions and problems.<\/li>\n<li>Generate more and better ideas.<\/li>\n<li>Reduce conflict.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Adding a focus and process \u2013 making meetings more effective and efficient\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As part of my job, I attended <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indigobusiness.co.uk\/Workshop\/de-bonos-six-thinking-hats\">Edward de Bono\u2019s Six Thinking Hats\u00ae<\/a>\u00a0workshop. I wondered if we could implement this to be able to maximise the decisions and consensus from our meetings.<a href=\"https:\/\/wpblog.indigobusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/black-and-yellow-hat.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indigobusiness.co.uk\/Workshop\/de-bonos-six-thinking-hats\">Six Thinking Hats\u00ae<\/a>\u00a0technique focuses on solving challenges and problems by thinking about them in an orderly fashion. You investigate the problem and the solution with intentionally different angles, then switch to new angles. Dr Edward de Bono, the founder of this concept, refers to these \u2018angles\u2019 as thinking hats \u2013 each one tied to a certain way of thinking about a situation.<\/p>\n<p>For example: in our dance meetings the main challenge was that we had a lot of confrontation and disagreements. This led to conflict in the group, making it harder to work with each other on anything. We found that, when individuals didn\u2019t like an idea they wouldn\u2019t spend much time thinking about its benefits, they would only focus on why it wouldn\u2019t work. They would only voice the negatives and not allow the positives to be uncovered \u2013 fearing that they would have to accept that they lost the argument.<a href=\"https:\/\/wpblog.indigobusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/black-and-yellow-hat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1731 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wpblog.indigobusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/black-and-yellow-hat.jpg\" alt=\"Black and Yellow Hat\" width=\"378\" height=\"124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpblog.indigobusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/black-and-yellow-hat.jpg 378w, https:\/\/wpblog.indigobusiness.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/black-and-yellow-hat-300x98.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, when we applied the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indigobusiness.co.uk\/Workshop\/de-bonos-six-thinking-hats\">Six Thinking Hats\u00ae<\/a>, everyone was asked to give Yellow Hat benefits, regardless of whether they liked the idea or not. Whilst on the other hand joyful supporters of the ideas were in turn asked to give Black Hat restraints to their ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Using just two of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indigobusiness.co.uk\/Workshop\/de-bonos-six-thinking-hats\">Six Hats<\/a> enabled each attendee to participate, breaking down their thinking and communication. It completely eradicated abrupt and direct comments like, \u201cThat\u2019s rubbish\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t be so negative!\u201d. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indigobusiness.co.uk\/Workshop\/de-bonos-six-thinking-hats\">Six Thinking Hats\u00ae<\/a>\u00a0method helped us modify our behaviour without attacking it. This simple process not only changed our thinking, but it also opened up new opportunities and improved some of our processes (something I\u2019ve seen mirrored at work). So, we now have productive and enjoyable meetings, and more time to dance and celebrate our successes!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edward de Bono\u2019s Six Thinking Hats\u00ae<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indigobusiness.co.uk\/Workshop\/de-bonos-six-thinking-hats\">Six Thinking Hats\u00ae<\/a>\u00a0technique is a business tool that can be used in many group interactions you have. We use this at Indigo every day to shorten our meetings and get a lot of decisions made. Just imagine the results you could gain in your workplace.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indigobusiness.co.uk\/Workshop\/de-bonos-six-thinking-hats\">Find out more about Edward de Bono\u2019s Six Thinking Hats\u00ae.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indigobusiness.co.uk\/Workshop\/re-accreditation---edward-de-bonos-six-thinking-hats\">Become a Six Thinking Hats\u00ae accredited trainer for your organisation.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ragini Krishnadas Meetings consume huge amounts of time for most of us,\u00a0our customers tell us that these are often the least productive elements of their day. \u201cThat was so worthwhile!\u201d When was the last time you walked out of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wpblog.indigobusiness.co.uk\/ever-wanted-to-just-get-up-and-walk-out-of-a-meeting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[184,165,164,13],"class_list":["post-1729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-edward-de-bono","tag-conflict-management","tag-decision-making","tag-meetings","tag-six-thinking-hats"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ever wanted to just get up and walk out of a meeting? 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