Keep a Parking Board
Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2025 10:46 am
Picture this: you took time last week to prepare the agenda for today’s sales team meeting. You even incorporated a fun Kahoot game to kick things off this week.
As your team is engaging with the meeting, there is one person who wants to derail the topic and start discussing next quarter’s compensation plan.
You know that you don’t have the information yet to have a discussion about that topic, and quite frankly it’s not the time to be going down that rabbit hole.
Keep control of your meeting by acknowledging the uruguay telegram data topic, but not addressing it.
I find that writing it down on the “parking board” is a great way to let that individual know that I heard their concern, and we will address it in our next meeting, or offline.
It might sound something like, “Great question, Steve. I’m going to jot that down on the parking board and we can address it later this week.”
Close early and have an alarm set 10 minutes before the end of the meeting.
This will allow you to properly close the meeting before the mad rush at the top of the hour for people wanting to get onto their next calls. If you have a call to action, then close by stating those expectations clearly.
For example, “I’m looking for each of you to send one video message to a customer this week and be prepared to share that video with the team next week”.
This call to action sets clear expectations for the participants as they get ready to disconnect from the meeting.
Applying these tools to your weekly meetings will help keep your team engaged and even looking forward to your meetings.
As your team is engaging with the meeting, there is one person who wants to derail the topic and start discussing next quarter’s compensation plan.
You know that you don’t have the information yet to have a discussion about that topic, and quite frankly it’s not the time to be going down that rabbit hole.
Keep control of your meeting by acknowledging the uruguay telegram data topic, but not addressing it.
I find that writing it down on the “parking board” is a great way to let that individual know that I heard their concern, and we will address it in our next meeting, or offline.
It might sound something like, “Great question, Steve. I’m going to jot that down on the parking board and we can address it later this week.”
Close early and have an alarm set 10 minutes before the end of the meeting.
This will allow you to properly close the meeting before the mad rush at the top of the hour for people wanting to get onto their next calls. If you have a call to action, then close by stating those expectations clearly.
For example, “I’m looking for each of you to send one video message to a customer this week and be prepared to share that video with the team next week”.
This call to action sets clear expectations for the participants as they get ready to disconnect from the meeting.
Applying these tools to your weekly meetings will help keep your team engaged and even looking forward to your meetings.