More and more of my life now is meetings —‘whatever they are’.
Being the type of twisted personality that I am, I almost never turn up on time and then I'm almost always trying to finish the meeting before it's scheduled to finish because I have something else to do.
I learned a long time ago that the best way to approach meetings (even if it's only in your head) is to walk in and go, What is this meeting for? What do we hope to achieve?
Once we understand what it's for, and then we've achieved what it's for, really, the meeting can be over, apart from pleasantries and platitudes, which are totally fine, but more and more with the meetings I have, and mentoring and coaching meetings.
That's what it is to become a proper director, which one day I hope to be able to be, to direct instead of to do. To coach and mentor and help people to be better versions of themselves and achieve great things, and if that happens in my own business, then the business will be fabulous and fantastic.
Having the patience to understand that will be critical going forward.
Personal interactions are difficult to schedule. Time spent mentoring and coaching people takes different lengths of time, and they're unspecific and unpredictable.
That's why I run over, that's why I'm late, that's why it's difficult to keep to schedule.
It's worth it, though, and cultivating the empathy and the patience, and the clarity to be able to get the best out of the person who's in front of you, both for them and for everyone else.
It should be the greatest pleasure.
Blog Post Number - 4323
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