With everyone working from home and Zoom meetings being the new norm, meetings are starting to run together. In other words, the morning check-in suddenly is talking about a finance issue without the right players on the call. Maybe the sales meeting all of a sudden is covering a new idea for the IT team to implement, but they aren’t there. It is tempting to include additional information in these calls, but in the end, things aren’t going to get done because either so many topics were discussed, no one took ownership, or the right people were not on the call. This kind of meeting is called “Meeting Stew.” Ways to avoid serving “meeting stew” in your meetings include discussing only the topic the meeting is supposed to address, schedule separate meetings for other items that need to be addressed with the right players in the room, take action items and distribute so all that are in the meeting know their responsibilities
