Friday, October 04, 2002
Meeting Meter
Ever wonder how neat it would be if people only knew how much that long, boring, unproductive meeting was costing them, second-by-second?
About fifteen years ago, I realized that what I knew about facilitating games was exactly what I needed to know about facilitating meetings. In my attempts to help people become more aware of the "meetings problem," I created a software tool I called the "Meeting Meter." Later, my friend Matt Daw made a javascript version of it so I could share it for free. Take a look at it. Play with it. Read the research. Click the links. Show it to your boss. Who knows, maybe it'll be the very thing you need to make people think before they call the next meeting to decide whether or not they should have a meeting to discuss meetings.
About fifteen years ago, I realized that what I knew about facilitating games was exactly what I needed to know about facilitating meetings. In my attempts to help people become more aware of the "meetings problem," I created a software tool I called the "Meeting Meter." Later, my friend Matt Daw made a javascript version of it so I could share it for free. Take a look at it. Play with it. Read the research. Click the links. Show it to your boss. Who knows, maybe it'll be the very thing you need to make people think before they call the next meeting to decide whether or not they should have a meeting to discuss meetings.
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