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Why Am I In This Meeting

Published: Aug. 18, 2020, 5 a.m.

Life Is Work - Ep 24 - Why Am I In This Meeting

  • Area of Work: Meaningful Meetings

 

Co-hosts, Producers:

Danielle Stenger 
Cameron Navarro, LMSW 

 

Mel’s Mindful Minute: 41:46

Melanie Wilmoth Navarro, LMSW, RYT, TSTSY-F

Owner, Lead Facilitator - Whole Moon Wellness

wholemoonwellness@gmail.com

 

Contact Info:

Website

Email

Twitter 

Instagram

 

Music:

Intro - King Must Die, by Picnic Lightning

MMM Transitions - Sur, by Picnic Lightning

Outro - Pa’lante, by Hurray for the Riff Raff

 

Why Am I In This Meeting

  • RESULT: To address this common feeling of confusion when you “have” to go to meetings because you were invited/they were put on your calendar, and talk through tools and strategies to help clarify why you’re there (and maybe even realize you don’t need to be there!)
  • Camnecdote - school attendance work

Protein - Main Event - Topic d’jour

  • What this Typically Looks Like
    • Meeting gets put on your calendar and so you go
    • Formal supervisor volunteers you to go
    • Just living your life and having a conversation with someone and they say “oh you should come to this meeting!”
    • The meeting is recurring - you go because you always go (we’ve always done it this way!)
  • Tools & Strategies
    • Stategy:email invitations - GIVE CONTEXT
      • Meeting engineering
    • Strategy: Clarify the result of the meeting
      • Tool/Technical: RAC 
      • Tool/Adaptive: Permission for imperfection - do not have to fill every box, be intentional about invitations and respectful of others’ time (that includes yourself!)
    • Strategy: Clarify roles
      • Tool/Technical: BAR/T, Community Engagement Chart
      • Tool/Adaptive:
        • 2 Things Can Be True - we can occupy multiple roles - be clear about which role you are representing in /this/ meeting
        • Trust ppl to do their work! If someone is in charge of data, let em be in charge of data, reinforce people’s ideas and accomplishments (Intersectional Equity)
    • Strategy: Accountability Framework
    • Strategy: Meeting Engineering
      • Tool/Technical: 1:1 meetings with new invitees, mtg includes clarity of result and role
      • Tool/Adaptive: Managing up - this is not a typical part of “how things are usually done.” Be willing and ready to manage up here and ask these questions in your own informal 1:1 to be sure you have the information you need

Mel’s Mindful Minute: 41:46

  • Progressive Muscle Relaxation
     

We Are Always Students

 

Sharing is Self-Caring

  • Self-care
    • Identify one meeting that you are attending this week.
      • Do you know why you are there?
      • What is one tool you might use to better clarify why you are there?
  • Community-care
    • Do your teammates know why their voices are valuable?
    • What can you do to support them and make sure they know?
  • Systems-care
    • Why is this a common challenge in our workplaces?
    • Who does it benefit most, if anyone, if there are unclear roles? Who does it most harm?

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