May 16, 2025
Most Product Managers hate Meetings.
But, I have conducted more than 1000+ successful meetings during my entire career.
#Day30 of #helpingAspiringPMs100Days
As a manager, you must learn how to conduct successful meetings.
You should do these things before the meeting.
→ Always set a clear agenda for the meeting.
→ Only invite the necessary people, because when you invite many, it creates a long meeting.
→ Share the agenda of the meeting over email before the meeting happens.
→ Always schedule short meetings ( 25 mins to 50 Mins).
Best practices during the meeting.
→ Always assign the role of taking notes of the meeting to one person.
→ Always stick to the agenda of the meeting.
→ Always ask for feedback about the new feature.
Tasks after the meeting
→ Send them a quick note or MOM(Minutes of Meeting).
→ Follow up on the action items from the meeting.
𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗺𝗲. 𝗜 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝘆𝗼𝘂.
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J P Yadav
5 months ago
IIM Calcutta | Fellow of Insurance Institute of India | Insurtech
My comment is deleted. I am hurt.
J P Yadav
5 months ago
IIM Calcutta | Fellow of Insurance Institute of India | Insurtech
I really wanted to ignore this post. But then I came back. There has to be a limit of BS sir. You help people land 50+ lacs product roles. You have 5 years of experience and you have conducted ten thousand plus "successful" interviews? When did you start counting your meetings? What is a successful meeting? If you really understand how it works, most of the meetings are followed by another meeting for various reasons which I wont elaborate here. And hence they wont be falling into a succesful meeting?
I am assuming you are talking about a professional meeting, not a meeting woth your neice or girlfriend or a friend. Hence in five years, you have roughly 250*5=1250 working days and I am sure the moment you started your journey and then when you changed jobs there must be days where you were not capable of contributing to a meeting. So lets take a ballpark figure of 1000 working professional days. Also assume the success ratio of meeting be a simple 1:2
In 1000 days you have conducted 10000 successful meetings, hence must have attended 20000 plus meetings which means 20 meetings a day? Then you have written 20000 MOMs and of course followed up with those emails and subsequent queries.
Cont.