Okay, the obvious:  Good meetings positively impact employee engagement and economics.

But how do we impact the above?

I am just off a really good planning meeting led by Elise Keith and one subject of brief discussion was my question around how good meetings might impact employee engagement (and how poorly run meetings might negatively impact engagement). I want to do more research on it, but it seems clear that one of the ONLY ways to improve engagement and collaboration is to have good meetings and events.

For 3 decades, we have used our teambuilding game, The Search for The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine to generate an event to clearly show how competition clrarly negatively impacts performance results and how collaboration between teams generates so many benefits and positive outcomes.

A press release about our 30+ years of working with the Lost Dutchman exercise is here: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/making-collaboration-timeless-a-team-building-games-remarkable-30-years-of-helping-organizations-thrive-301670994.html

As part of my general approach to things these days, I asked Gemini: What are the economics around good meetings and employee engagement and collaboration?

Coffee Shop-Style Meeting Collaboration is NOT going to improve teamwork and collaboration. “To each his own” will continue to isolate and disengage people in the workplace. GOOD meetings that generate active ownership and collaboration is a key to the future.

I wanted to share this just to get you to have the same state of shock that I had when I saw the output. Clearly, the quality of meetings has a lot of impact on how organizations respond and how engagement might have some impacts:

Understanding economics revolves heavily surrounding measuring tangible outputs, whereas measuring engagement and collaboration has impacts on:

The Understanding economics surrounding interactions involving intangibles, especially creativity, collaboration, engagement, meetings, organizational dynamics, ‍employee satisfaction, productivity, ⬇️costs, financial gains, ROI, ⏳future predictions, ⚠️risk mitigation, risk-reward assessments, experimentation, performance metrics, organizational transformation, economic sustainability, ⏳future readiness, growth, ➡️strategic adaptation, partnership, consensus, negotiaton, understanding, compromiese, collective bargaining, agreeableness, fair dealing, justice, mutual gains, alignment, trust, respect, mutual cooperation, shared objectives, collective wisdom, collaborativeness, problem-solving, critical discussions, innovative brainstorming, collective intelligence, collective creativity, collective insights, collective expertise, shared ownership, mutual accountability, shared rewards, shared risks, shared visions, shared perspectives, shared emotions, shared energies, shared enthusiasm, shared commitment, shared ownership, shared risks, shared rewards, shared visions, shared perspectives, shared emotions, shared energies, shared enthusiasm, shared commitment, shared accountability, shared risks, shared rewards, presents inherent complexities. Quantifying intangible impacts poses substantial methodological limitations, requiring multifaceted approaches.

Yeah. me too. I had the same reaction…

Maybe this is something to look into? Maybe improving meeting quality and effectiveness would help to positively impact employee engagement and the collaboration of people. And we know that improving collaboration also has a wide variety of impacts on people and performance.

Something to consider?