before a meeting starts
Recently, got to know about two “effective meeting” techniques, which goal is to motivate attendance and discourage people from being late.
The first is the “one minute rule”: set irregular meeting start time, e g. 14:29 or 10.58. People tend to quantize continuous time into chunks and this way, it is assumed, the meeting is more likely to start at 14:30 and 11:00.
The second rule is called the “one person rule”: the meeting doesn’t start until all but one attendees are present and it starts immediately as there is all but one in the room.
It is another interpretation of a well-known business fable about involvement and commitment (read Agile Commitment - Classic Pig and Chicken Cartoon)
That means:
- a person who sees the meeting important (committed), understands that it can start without him/her and will hurry up
- a person only having limited interest (involved), still, doesn’t want to be held responsible for the delayed or blocked meeting and will, therefore, try not to be late as wellÂ
To me both rules sound a bit machiavellian, so I like my own the “double R rule” applicable in healthy work environments:
Respect your colleagues and don’t be consistently late. If someone is late, Relax and chat about “how was the weekend”-kind-of-topic.
Which rule do you like more?
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