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workaday Thursday
Mar. 10th, 2022 06:24 amMy boss is having us fill in a "meeting log" this week -- we write down every meeting we go to, and what the purpose of the meeting is, and I guess this is supposed to make us better at meetings? It's the latest in a series of Improving Lessons about communication and meetings.
(The fact that I'm not entirely sure what the goal of the meeting log is supposed to be probably indicates those lessons aren't sticking?)
But the latest meeting buzzword we're learning is "CPR." (Not, as one might hope, a humorous nod to the feeling that meetings can suck the air out of a day.) I'm told this stands for "Context, Purpose, Result." I've also been given several examples of how this can be applied to certain types of meetings, most of which are perfectly reasonable.
My log, on the other hand, looks like this:
*Thursday morning: status update: 15-25 minutes
Context: ongoing projects
Purpose: update attendees on status
Result: attendees will know current status
(It's tempting to buzzword it up, and toss in some "interdepartmental alignment" kind of stuff. We'll see!)
(The fact that I'm not entirely sure what the goal of the meeting log is supposed to be probably indicates those lessons aren't sticking?)
But the latest meeting buzzword we're learning is "CPR." (Not, as one might hope, a humorous nod to the feeling that meetings can suck the air out of a day.) I'm told this stands for "Context, Purpose, Result." I've also been given several examples of how this can be applied to certain types of meetings, most of which are perfectly reasonable.
My log, on the other hand, looks like this:
*Thursday morning: status update: 15-25 minutes
Context: ongoing projects
Purpose: update attendees on status
Result: attendees will know current status
(It's tempting to buzzword it up, and toss in some "interdepartmental alignment" kind of stuff. We'll see!)
