Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business

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Things change when Yip Software is acquired by a big video game company, forcing Casey to make his executive meetings more productive. Through Casey’s experience, we learn several lessons on how to make meetings more engaging and efficient. Allow time for meetings done right (which is sometimes less time and sometimes more time than normal.

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MINING FOR CONFLICT AND REAL-TIME PERMISSION. Leader can minimize the discomfort and maximize the likelihood that conflict will continue by interrupting the participants and reminding them that what they are doing is good. Recommendations include: consider developing criteria for professionals meetings to be formally integrated into local child protection procedures to provide a multi-agency reflective space to consider risk and support for families; develop a multi-agency substance misuse strategy to provide clarity on the impact of different substance misuse, particularly cannabis on parenting capacity and guidance for practitioners in relation to escalation and effective interventions; consider how to support practitioners to manage the interface with one plan arrangements for children with special/additional needs within early help arrangements; consider the learning and undertake a multiagency self-assessment and any resulting actions from the national panel's thematic review ‘The myth of invisible men’ (2021) to support practitioners in improving the engagement, involvement and assessment of male carers; and consider the learning from this review and the national panel's review ‘Child protection in England’ (2022) to ensure that the views of family members are always considered in assessments of risk.

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The Weekly Tactical is analogous to a weekly staff meeting, but the focus is more disciplined. The Weekly Tactical is focused exclusively on tactical issues of immediate concern. To have passionate meetings with healthy conflict, the leader must announce to the team that more conflict will be expected from them – active, healthy debates. When conflict arises, encourage them that what they are doing is good. Now or Later tendency for team members to go too much into details during the lightning round, causes others to lose interest, thus clouds the ability of the team to identify the right issues for discussion and resolution.

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As a leader, you must have the courage to mine for conflict. You have a responsibility to bring disagreements into the light, despite the uncomfortable situation it may create. Give Real-Time Permission The meeting where executives wrestle with, analyze, debate and decide upon critical issues (but only a few) that will affect the business in fundamental ways. Allow executives to dive into a given topic or two without the distractions of deadlines and tactical concerns. Advisable to schedule at least 2 hours per topic. For one, the fable is about four times as long as the model, even though the former is merely the framework for the latter.

Learning includes: reinforcing messages about potential risks to a child’s safety of alcohol use by parents, even where there is no dependency; adequately managing every stage of the social care response from screening to the allocation of support; allowing for disclosure of domestic abuse by female perpetrators at routine domestic abuse screenings of pregnant women and new mothers; ensuring multi-agency co-ordination takes place as soon as the need for early help is identified and before a threshold for social care involvement is met; and keeping the lived experience of the child central to practitioners’ work. Keywords: alcohol, family support services, family violence, parents with a mental health problem, sleeping behaviour, sudden infant death Meetings are tedious. Given that most people sitting through meetings have other work that they could be doing, this is a huge issue, and it makes most employees resent meetings as a waste of their time. Meetings are tedious because there is no drama or tension within most meetings. In fact, most meeting leaders skirt tension if it exists. Solutions Death announcements are written in a sorrowful tone. Even though the purpose of the message is to report this news, do it gently. Death of a 16-month-old boy due to non-accidental injuries in August 2019. Mother's partner was charged with murder and Mother was charged with causing or allowing the death of a child.