In our Tuesday Tip this week, we showed you how to use the power of celebration to keep everyone on your team feeling appreciated. A vibrant mood can often be the key to transforming your meeting room from the doldrums to productive, keeping everyone engaged and enthusiastic - wondering why and how it works?
To increase engagement in the meeting room, inject a little celebration!
Encouraging celebration improves everyone's mood
The power of celebration is a clear example of the upbeat atmosphere that encouraging participation can create. It’s difficult to whoop and cheer without meaning it - even the crankiest of attendees, in our experience, eventually gets swept away by the enthusiasm in the room! When the whole team participates, more gets done - and everyone’s happy they’ve done it.Being able to make a difference creates enthusiasm
The traditional meeting model has the unfortunate effect that attendees feel they should mutely follow a pre-set agenda, whether or not they agree with, or have an interest in, its topics. Encouraging participation removes the sensation of helplessness: every attendee is invited to use their knowledge and expertise to craft a more effective meeting. It’s easier to speak up if you believe you can make a difference - and celebration can make everyone feel like making that difference has been worthwhile.Acknowledging achievements keeps everyone engaged
Placing a visual tick on an agenda item once it's been completed is an acknowledgement that something has been achieved, and that everyone agrees it has been achieved. It’s an inclusive method of demonstrating to the group that, as a community, they have accomplished something in the meeting. By ticking items as you go, you still get to celebrate what you've achieved even if you don’t finish everything on the agenda! Watch for our future tip on how to structure your agenda topics to ensure each item is valuable by itself
Give It A Try
At Flowmotion, nothing makes us feel more productive than the grins we share when we celebrate our achievements - a well-timed "woohooo!" can make those achievements feel valued and worthwhile. Did you take on our challenge and give it a go? We’d love to hear your experiences with the power of celebration, and we’re happy to help if you have queries - give us a call, drop us a line or leave a comment below!Next Week - Injecting Energy into Meetings: Setting Time Limits on Your Meetings
Check back next week to find out how to bring more energy into your meetings, and thus employee engagement, using time limits! Or we could send it directly to your inbox:
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About the Author:
Laura M. Waite and Collin Lyons are the duo of business productivity coaches behind Flowmotion. For people in the office world who want to feel the buzz, Flowmotion is an enterprise that will awaken your passion for work. To address the all-too-typical experience of unenergetic working lives, our mission is to redesign how people interact with their environment to generate engaging, productive and collaborative atmospheres and organisations. We share several decades of experience providing organisational transformation and executive coaching and have worked with small, medium, large and global organisations including: British Telecom, British Petroleum, Standard Life Assurance and Investments, British Gas/Centrica, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Allied Irish Bank and the UK Government.