what in the world is a working meeting I'm gonna explain that right after the
intro hey guys ECR G here back with another episode
today we're gonna be talking about the working meeting now this is an idea I'm
sure it's been around before but this is an idea that I'm really really really
becoming drawn to in the clinical research space because for those of you
that are in the industry or that want to get into the industry or have some
experience in the corporate America sphere you understand that there are
oftentimes meeting after meeting after meeting you may have tons of meetings
back to back to back you may have you know a few days of no meetings and then
all day of meetings and it becomes very very hard to get work done around those
meetings it's not just the allotted time that the meeting takes up let's say if
it's an hour-long meeting it's also the fact that you're starting something then
you're stopping something to get in the meeting and then you have to start
something back up or what if there's only like a 30 minute or 20 minute break
in between your meetings and then you have to kind of read back up to do it
and whatnot and that is a really difficult thing to do and still get your
work done if you've got all these meetings and all this what I would call
kind of wasted time in there where you don't want to really start something
because it's gonna take too much time or too much effort to gonna get it started
then you're just got to stop again so one of the things that I've kind of come
up with or have been thinking about lately is the idea of this working
meeting where instead of those meetings where you're just sitting there and
listening and maybe talking about strategy or one person's talking and you
know other people are just listening and most people are off doing their own
thing kind of multitasking anyway instead of doing that why don't we only
call meetings for things where we have an actionable tasks that we're gonna be
doing so when the meeting is over we no longer have to think about that task now
let's think really hard about what what those things could be what those what
those tasks could be and I feel like this is a really good usage of the
meeting time be you're gonna walk out the meeting having
done your work related to that meeting and I really like this for a couple of
reasons because a lot of times people complain about not having the time to do
certain things well they're if you have a meeting on the calendar you've
allotted that time for everybody to focus on that thing and to get that
thing done so if you're present at the meeting you should be able to get that
work done so you no longer have that excuse of oh I don't have enough time to
do it and you'll see this all the time in
clinical research there's just so many meetings if he comes hard to get work
done sometimes and you have to work extra where if you eliminate all the
meetings if you literally had no meetings to attend you could get all of
your work done for sure so there's a way to kind of blend that and hybridize that
by the working meeting where you have meetings set up and you're gonna be
talking about things too but you're also gonna be working on the task at hand
during those meetings now let's think of an example one of the meanings that
everyone is gonna have whether you're on the clinical side or the project
management side the sponsor is definitely going to talk about some
query deadlines that they may have coming up well you're obviously gonna
have meetings about that and talk about that with your in-house C arrays with
your C Ras with your project management team about that query deadline and one
of the ways you know you could turn that into a working meeting is instead of
just talking about that you could actually have the people reach
out to their designated sites saying hey you've got these open queries that need
to be resolved by this date and you could literally have them all craft the
emails in the meeting and hit Send so that task is done so you do not have
to worry about people forgetting about it later on or people not being able to
do it you've got the tasks done in that meeting and you've got one of the
objectives that you wanted out of the way now everyone just has to wait for
their sites to respond saying that they've actually done the task and
that's it but now you've eliminated one of the you
know the friction points that there is to having certain tasks on a team and
you've eliminated that one of the friction points which is you've gotten
the first part out of the way and that's amazing
so I think this working meeting concepts should definitely be implemented I think
the working meeting concept is a very powerful one because I think a lot of
people are gonna get a lot more work done having you know obviously working
through these meetings and having actionable tasks that you could say
you've done in the meeting and that's gonna make for a very very productive
meeting now obviously every single meeting is
not going to be able to be turned into a working meeting but I think you would be
surprised at what actions you actually could derive from a meeting that could
actually be completed by the end of the meeting I think you'd be surprised
and I would curious to see if this is gonna improve you know dramatically
improve dramatically the amount of work that's done on the team and overall
happiness cuz I know for me I hate attending meetings but of course you
know as a CRA I don't really attend too many meetings but I know from my time as
an in-house CRA and for my time as a you know the project's management side of
things there are a lot of meetings there are a lot of a lot of meetings and it
would be nice if you were able to get those tasks done by the end of the
meeting so that you did not have to worry about them or think about them
anymore this is gonna be easy for people are updating trackers you know you have
people up to sit there and update the tracker with their information anything
like that you know if you've got if someone's got to send out an email blast
of the team they could cook that up right there lots of lots of different
things you could do I mean it's very very easy to kind of think about all of
the is it you know is very easy to kind of think about all of the applications
for this working meeting in how many things that you end up having to do as a
result of a meeting so I think this is very interesting what do you guys think
what you guys think about the working meeting have you seen this implemented
before in clinical trials or maybe you are gonna plan on implementing it now
and see how it is over the next couple of weeks so comment down below if you're
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