How You Know When You’ve Lost The Meeting
AdverGirl.com has a great post on her blog listing the top 10 signs that you’ve lost the meeting. My favorites…
#4. The Blackberry Daisy Chain
Let me assure you: this really happened. It is not the stuff of folklore. I heard it from the stranded facilitator herself. First, one Blackberry buzzes away on the conference table. It’s picked up to a smirk. And then before you know it, they’re all buzzing away. An underground meeting taking over your meeting! And a comically themed one no less.
#6. The Sigh Heard ‘Round The Office
Is it disappointment? Boredom? Frustration with the process? Who knows, but when that long, deep, loud-as-the-sound-of-the-tornado-coming-in-that-weird-Helen-Hunt-movie sigh rushes out, it’s time to wrap it up!
#8. The Slow Drain Of People
This derailing is most likely to happen on a Friday afternoon or during those first few weeks of back-to-school before the parents get back on the right carpool / handoff / soccer schedule. Someone announces that they have to leave 15 minutes early. Someone else gets an urgent cell phone call and trucks off to the lobby (and eventually the parking lot). Another “realizes’ that the meeting runs 30 minutes longer than her calendar noted. Before you know it, you’re presenting to the leftover pastries and the two enthusiastic interns.
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