28. In meetings, leading does not mean dominating
Translated from the French original.
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In 2021 I had the good fortune to sit in on more than 10 meetings with senior leaders: management committees, boards of directors, executive committees, leadership teams.
An opportunity to realise that there is room for improvement at every level of every organisation when it comes to facilitating meetings.
An opportunity, too, to observe the behaviour of the leader — managing director, chair, as the case may be. Men and women alike, of course.
It’s to talk about all this that I’ve decided to run a webinar on Thursday the 16th, to try to answer an almost philosophical question:
“What is the leader actually for in a meeting?”
On the first level, the leader is there to move things forward, to get decisions made, or to decide.
On the second level, they are there to inspire — explicitly or implicitly — the culture of the organisation.
They are the leader. For many of the people in the room, that means they have succeeded.
Their every attitude, their every intervention may be taken as a model.
They arrive late to the meeting. Perhaps I too should arrive late to the meetings I run, to establish my legitimacy?
They interrupt the speakers. Perhaps I should do the same in my meetings, to show that I’m competent and that I’m the boss?
They never say thank you. Perhaps that’s the right way to make people more autonomous?
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