{"id":453185951,"count":92,"description":"<h1><a name=\"_Toc58849733\"><\/a>Meeting Leadership and Leadership Skills -- WHERE Comes Before WHY<\/h1>\r\nLeadership skills integrate the WHY, WHAT, and HOW. Exceptional meeting leadership also requires keen awareness and the ability to describe to participants . . .\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>WHERE they are going (ie, <strong>know what \u2018<\/strong><strong>DONE\u2019 looks like<\/strong>)<\/li>\r\n \t<li>WHY their meeting is important (if not important, there should not be a meeting)<\/li>\r\n \t<li>WHAT questions they need to answer and in what sequence<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Meeting roles and planned activities leading to WHO does WHAT<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Planned activities or procedure leading to HOW they will get done<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nTechnically, leaders do <u>not<\/u> have to know WHY they are going somewhere to be successful at arriving. They must, however, be clear about WHERE they are going. All leaders, command-control leaders, meeting leaders, and servant leaders must have line of site, also described by:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>The \u2018deliverable\u2019 (or output) from the meeting, or<\/li>\r\n \t<li>What DONE looks like<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h2>DONE<\/h2>\r\nAfter you can describe WHERE you are leading your group, first seek agreement about WHY the deliverable is important. If your participants cannot agree on WHY the object of their endeavors is important, it is unlikely that they will arrive at consensus during subsequent analysis or design activities.\r\n\r\nLet me be clear, you are not seeking to have everyone playing the same note on the same instrument. That would be quite boring and uneventful. Rather, you are seeking the harmony of different notes being played on different instruments\u2014something akin to music, whether a symphony or hip-hop.\r\n\r\nYour role, as the meeting facilitator, dictates tempo, volume, and who plays when. Do not, however, pick up an instrument and start playing on behalf of your meeting participants. It is their responsibility to provide music from their instruments, they are the experts. They do not have to play the same note, but you must keep them harmonious.\r\n<h2>Other Articles<\/h2>\r\nThe balance of these articles on leadership skills explains how mastering three concepts will enable you to lead any group in any type of situation. The three concepts seem complicated yet are vital to collaborative meetings around complex topics. You may not completely understand them immediately, but they will crystalize by the end of the book after re-using these three concepts over and over:\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li>The <strong>holarchy<\/strong> or graphical view (shown in the next section) operating throughout an organization,<\/li>\r\n \t<li>The <strong>trichotomy <\/strong>or first-cut analytical method for applying structure that immediately divides complex issues into three manageable portions (shown in the second next section), and<\/li>\r\n \t<li>The <strong>meeting roles<\/strong> that must be respected because you want subject matter experts to strive for objectivity. 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