Do we meet for the sake of it?

I wonder who was the first person who decided to put meetings in the calendar?

Was he or she proud of this invention?

We meet a lot, but we say little. I had been on many pointless meetings. Do we want to meet to create a better team atmosphere, then let’s really do that!

The worse thing is when you join a meeting and you see very miserable people who are part of that meeting by force, or by expectations that if they are not there, they will miss something out.

We build cultures because we want to be part of something and we want to meet. The reverse way lets meet to build a culture is never the answer.

So next time you are joining pointless meeting, maybe the intention wasn’t defined or worse it was defined, but it was poorly executed.

Aleks Vladimriov is a Senior Software Developer, recognized Project Manager and Soft-skilled trainer and a coach.

Aleks Vladimirov

Solution Engineering Manager at Thales | Senior IT Professional | Startup Mentor and Product Manager

Bio

Aleks is experienced Product Manager with an engineer background and over 10 years of experience as a software developer. He works with different governments and is responsible for negotiation features and requirements, understanding the customers’ needs and supporting the senior management with regular reports and analysis. He held various positions starting as a software developer, moving to a team leader and software architect.

He strives in waterfall and agile environment alike. He is certified Scrum Master and Prince2 Practitioner and he knows how to design business processes and help teams optimize their work.
During his tenure, he had to wear many hats, prioritizing business requirements, delegating work and mentoring team members, creating mockups with Balsamiq, providing MS Project plan to the senior management.

He had worked in many international teams, located in the same city or distributed in different countries and continents. He had been a team leader of cross functional international team of 8 people.

In his current position, he is very much client focused. He has excellent presentation skills.
He delivers training sessions on presentation skills and leadership and he had helped hundred of people to improve their presentation skills.

He is also interested in creating more positive changes in the workplace by using entrepreneurship skills.
He had won startup competition where his team had validated and develop a business idea from scratch.

In his free time, he writes in his blog about effective product development.