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In this episode of Lead the Room, Briony and Lyndsey tackle one of the most common leadership challenges: team meetings that have completely gone off the rails. Through real stories of meetings lasting two hours and leaving teams drained, they reveal how broken meeting culture doesn't just waste time; it actively destroys team energy, kills innovation, and erodes trust in leadership. They share a practical three-step audit framework that transformed their own teams, proving that you don't need another away day or expensive consultant to fix this. Instead, they show how gathering honest feedback and making strategic changes can completely reinvent how your team works together.

Key Takeaways:

• • Broken Meetings Reveal Broken Leadership: When your team meetings consistently drain energy rather than create it, they're not just inefficient, they're a mirror showing you exactly what's wrong with your team culture. The two-hour Monday morning interrogation isn't about poor time management; it's symptomatic of deeper issues around trust, autonomy, and understanding what your team actually needs to perform.
• • Leaders Often Can't See What Needs Fixing: The most powerful insight from this episode is recognizing when you're too close to the problem to solve it. Briony shares how delegating the meeting audit to her leadership team led to transformations she never would have thought of. Sometimes the best leadership move is admitting your team knows better than you do.
• • Quick Wins Build Momentum for Bigger Change: You don't need to overhaul everything at once. Eliminating one obviously wasteful meeting, adding five-minute buffers between back-to-back meetings, or adjusting the timing of one problematic session can have immediate impact. These small changes prove you're serious about acting on feedback and build the trust needed for larger cultural shifts. The "now, next, later" approach keeps teams informed without overwhelming them with anxiety about change.

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