Quick Cut: S2E229 The Magic Meeting

It's a Good Life

Brian Buffini

Business, Entrepreneurship, Life, Good, Entrepreneur, Coaching

4.4 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

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For a team to win, members have to buy in, weigh in and then move forward on a shared vision. In this episode, Brian explains his decades-old winning formula for prime collaboration and shares why this strategy has proven so powerful for building successful organizations.

YOU WILL LEARN:

· Why people need to feel heard.

· How to structure a magic meeting.

· How to implement people’s ideas.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

“Death by Meeting,” by Pat Lencioni

NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:

“People need to feel a sense of meaning and movement with the things they've proposed.” – Brian Buffini

“If people don't feel heard - if you just talk at and over people - it breaks down relationships and it breaks down trust.” – Brian Buffini

“What you're really trying to do is create some kind of synergistic process where you're co- creating.” – Brian Buffini

“It's very important as a group that you affirm what's working well.” – Brian Buffini

“People love to come to work or be in an organization or on a team where they see progress being made.” – Brian Buffini

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0:00.0	Welcome to It's a Good Life with Brian Baffini, founder of America's largest business coaching company.
0:10.0	Here's a short classic cut from one of our all-time favorite episodes.
0:15.0	Well, the top of the morning to you and welcome to It's a Good Life.
0:20.0	Today I'm going to cover a process that I have been using for almost 30 years.
0:27.0	It's called the Magic Meeting.
0:30.0	I have used it throughout my career to great, great effect.
0:34.3	And it's basically how to get people to buy in,
0:37.0	how to get people to weigh in, how to get people connected,
0:40.5	align to a vision, and then moving forward on some next steps.
0:45.0	So here's three points for you today.
0:48.0	First and foremost, people need to feel heard.
0:50.0	That is the first key ingredient to any type of collaboration, support, or team environment.
0:57.0	Next, we're going to cover the actual magic meeting and the structure of it itself.
1:02.0	And then lastly, people need to see you take an action on
1:05.1	their ideas. When you have the meeting, if people give their input, if people give their
1:08.7	ideas and you do nothing other than have a meeting, now you get into what Pat Lensie only wrote a famous book about
1:15.2	called Death by Meeting.
1:16.8	The whole dynamic of people being a part of a business company, organization, charity,
1:22.2	and feeling like their work is meaningless is one of the most
1:25.7	significant negative impacts you can have. So people need to feel a sense of meaning and movement
1:31.8	with the things they've proposed.
1:33.0	So let's kind of dive in.
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