Most team meetings are a status update read aloud. Everyone shares what they did, nods and leaves with nothing decided. An hour gone, the work no further along.
A meeting worth having does one thing: it ends with decisions and the names attached to them. What are we doing this week, who owns each piece and when is it done? The updates can live in a shared doc. The meeting is for the things that need a room.
A simple format that holds up: what moved last week, what’s in the way and what each of us will do before we meet again. Short, specific and everyone leaves knowing their one thing.
This week, run your team meeting toward decisions instead of updates. End it by saying out loud who is doing what, by when.