This Meeting Is Not For Discussing Anything That Matters

From the Center for Creative Leadership’s white paper on Senior Leadership Team Coaching, quoting Kerry Bunker, a Senior Fellow at the Center:

For every senior team, the issues that must be addressed “are more comfortably left under the table or voiced only as the team members are walking away from the room,” says Bunker.

Sad but true. How often have you attended a meeting where the crux of the matter surfaced in a post-meeting discussion, in the break room, in the bathroom, in a post-meeting email conversation – anywhere except during the actual meeting agenda points.

The white paper suggests that the safe and trusting environment built by a senior leadership team coach will prevent this left-under-the-table phenomenon from happening.

What are your techniques for making sure that the “real” issues are raised, and not voiced as afterwords or asides?