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You know the Mevil. Better than you might think. He is in your office, every day, sucking the energy and motivation out of your team.
The Mevil is the meeting devil. He embodies everything evil about meetings:
Doesn’t respect others’ time and schedules.
Doesn’t prepare meetings.
Arbitrarily invites as many colleagues as possible to meetings.
Doesn’t start and end meetings punctually.
Doesn’t actively manage meetings he initiated.
Is distracted and writes emails during meetings.
Doesn’t follow-up properly after meetings.
... and much more!
1. The Mevil comes in a sack.
Everybody’s collective responsibility is to keep the Mevil from coming out of his sack, as he is the symbol of a bad meeting culture.
2. If someone – the meeting organizer or an attendant – has violated one of the meetmind Meeting Commandments, the other meeting participants’ duty is to take the Mevil out of his sack and blame the Mevil for the violation.
3. Blaming the Mevil for not sticking to the meetmind Meeting Commandments instead of blaming the colleague who has committed the violation makes it easier for everyone on your team to address meeting culture violations – in order to collectively improve.
4. As soon as a team member notes a breach of the meetmind Commandments during a meeting, their responsibility is to take the Mevil out of the sack and state which commandment was violated. (And yes, the meeting must be briefly interrupted.)
5. Coming unprepared to a meeting is also a reason to pull the Mevil out of his sack!
6. If the Mevil is out of the sack, he needs to stay out of the sack until the next meeting. The participants of the next meeting shall see that the meeting before was not compliant with the meetmind Commandments!
7. If a meeting participant notifies another violation of a meetmind Commandment, they need to grab, or at least point to, the Mevil and state the violated commandment.
8. When the next meeting in the related meeting room starts, the attendants of that next meeting need to put the Mevil back in his sack – and do everything to make him stay there.
9. If you observe that a meeting organizer violates a meetmind Commandment before (preparation phase) or after (follow-up phase) a meeting, let them know (via email or in person) about the violation by blaming the Mevil for the breach.
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