Meetings and Clarity

​Colleagues,
 
Today we’ll do some pattern matching form last week’s sunburst activity on why our meetings are unproductive. I’m using an image of the three sunrays we broke down last week and I’ve annotated it in orange. 

On this pass through the sunrays I focused on the theme of clarity. 
 
People have their own agendas

• “don’t understand our goals”
• “aren’t sure what we are trying to achieve”
• “goal is not clear”
• “If the purpose isn’t clear…”

 
Too much information

• “put the important things first”

 
There’s not enough time

• “lack of clarity”
• “don’t always know the focus or goal”

 
Even though the sunray about people having their own agenda to fundamentally different from too much information and there’s not enough time, the common theme of clarity pops out. 
 
Tomorrow we’ll go through again and look at some other relationships. On Wednesday, we’ll being to focus on the areas of promise.
 
Until tomorrow, what themes, connections, and loops do you see?
 
Do good and be well,

​Frederick