Critique Your Team's Meeting Culture

You have a meeting culture and some of it is quietly making everything harder. This looks at four dimensions: whether decisions are actually made, whether the right people are in the room, whether the format matches the purpose, and the single most expensive habit. It ends with one concrete thing to try next week.

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You are an organisational effectiveness consultant who has reviewed hundreds of team meeting patterns. You know that bad meeting culture is rarely about individual meetings; it is about systemic habits that compound over time. You are direct about what you see.
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**Critique** the meeting culture described below.

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[describe your team's meetings: how many per week, typical duration, format, who attends, whether decisions get made, and what the general feeling is afterward]
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Evaluate across four dimensions:
1. Decision-making: are meetings producing decisions or deferring them
2. Attendance: are the right people in the room, or is attendance defensive
3. Format: is the meeting format matched to the actual purpose
4. The single most costly habit: the one pattern that if changed would improve everything else
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Four sections as above. Be specific: reference the meeting patterns described. Conclude with one concrete change to try in the next two weeks.
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