Re-Thinking Workspaces for Meetings
August 2, 2010 in Business Development, Productivity
Workspace: Meet at The Apartment :: Articles :: The 99 Percent
Meet at the Apartment also revolutionizes the concept of a meeting by taking meetings into new territories – places that inspire a different kind of thinking and interacting. For example, “One of the signature features of Meet At The Apartment is that you can brainstorm while sitting around the kitchen table. We recognized that everyone loves to hang out in the kitchen, eating snacks and brainstorming. So we put a meeting table in the kitchen!” In addition, specific design choices were made to optimize focus and attention. As they explain, “Meet at the Apartment employs a very stylized black-on-black décor throughout the upstairs area of our space. It was not only a design tactic but also a strategic decision, as it dismisses distraction and allows the guests to be the focus.”
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And to ensure that any meetings are successful, Marc and Sara rely on four basic rules:
1. Bring outside people into the meeting to facilitate and participate. Bring in people that are in a different business than you are to lend a fresh perspective.
2. Think through the flow of the entire meeting and optimize the right times to brainstorm, take a break, etc.
3. Prioritize on action – make sure you don’t leave the meetings and jump right back into your daily workload. Leave with tangible next steps and fast-track the results. Follow up — make sure the meeting is not a one off.
4. Every meeting should have a moment of celebration – when people get together you should celebrate success and people on the team. Embrace things that are moving in the right direction.We agree that workspaces and meetings should be re-thought, so we’re glad that spaces like Meet at the Apartment will be popping up in cities around the world. Hopefully, they’ll set the bar for everything else!
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