How to Bring Focus, Joy, and Efficiency to Your Meetings.
Your Meeting: As Valuable as a Small Picasso Have you ever calculated how much your company invests in your regular meetings? Just the personnel costs of a weekly meeting quickly add up to a five-figure annual amount - for that, you could already acquire an original Picasso drawing. On the other hand, you invest about 100 hours of your life each year. Is your meeting worth it? I believe that when a group of well-paid, excellently trained, and experienced employees regularly come together, it should be about more than just the flow of information. Are you interested in this? Then stay tuned to learn how to make your meeting profitable like a Picasso.
Your Employees: Always in the Picture
Picasso: "All people have the same potential for energy. The average person wastes theirs on a dozen trivial things. I waste mine on one single thing: painting."
What do you use your energy for? To meet the expectations of others? Or to continuously enhance your core competencies? Do you know the strengths of your team? Is everyone working in the area that excites them and where they want to further develop? Let your employees develop their own style and realize their own picture of success: Your task is to create the framework. What do you gain? Committed, cheerful, and healthy employees. Gallup and Kienbaum HR studies confirm it.
Your Approach: As Creative as in the Studio
Picasso: "I do not seek. I find."
What are the core tasks of your team? What can and want you to achieve? Expand beyond your current significance and utilize your creativity. How can you use your meeting to design creative solutions and ideas for products and services?
• Change your perspective! Each member of your team has different experiences, hobbies, and contacts. What do you discover when looking at your issue from these perspectives? The advantage: Different priorities. Different problem statements. Different ideas. • Create a creative work environment! How about a meeting at an art museum, city garden, or sports field? The advantage: Fresh air. Punctual employees. Different thoughts. • Draw instead of write! Document your drafts in the form of sketches instead of words. The advantage? Utilization of both brain hemispheres. Focus on positive formulations. Shared guiding images.
Your Objective: As Focused as Picasso's Bull Study
Picasso: "I do not say everything, but I paint everything..."
Focus on the essentials at every meeting, and strive to become better at recognizing the essentials. Just like Picasso did in his bull study. In 11 versions, he gradually simplified the drawing of a bull until a simple outline drawing was sufficient to clearly sketch the bull. Apple used this study as a model to improve the external impact and design of its products. What can you omit to make the core of your work visible? What do you gain? Profile. Presence. Suitable solutions. How valuable is your meeting? About Daniela Kaiser
Daniela Kaiser is an experienced business economist and passionate art historian. With Leonardo, Monet, Picasso, as well as best practices from 600 years of art history, she convinces as an inspiring speaker and creative consultant. Her motto: Management by Art.
