{"id":402,"date":"2015-02-21T18:04:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T18:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=402"},"modified":"2015-02-14T18:16:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T18:16:47","slug":"the-sacred-secret-satisfying-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/the-sacred-secret-satisfying-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sacred, Secret, Satisfying, Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agendas. \u00a0I&#8217;ll be honest I hadn&#8217;t given them much thought. \u00a0Then, Evan Addams spoke to our class and it was like a lightning bolt hit me. \u00a0Of course agendas are wonderful! \u00a0Once I looked back at some of my best experiences with business professionals, I realized they all used them. \u00a0These weren&#8217;t the boring, stifling, outdated,<a href=\"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/imgres.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-404 alignright lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/imgres.png\" alt=\"Agenda\" width=\"233\" height=\"216\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 233px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 233\/216;\" \/><\/a> structuring tools I saw them as. \u00a0Oh no, these free up the conversation, rather than restrict it.<\/p>\n<p>I was partway through an interview process with a company I really wanted to work for. \u00a0I was so taken aback by the fact that before every interaction, they sent an agenda. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t realize that was what it was at the time. \u00a0It might simply be an email saying, &#8220;I will call at 11:00, we will discuss X, before we move onto Y, and finish up with Z.&#8221; \u00a0This meant that neither of us had to lead the conversation. \u00a0We both knew where it was going to go. \u00a0We could move from subject to subject without one of us stopping to say &#8220;alright, let me stop you there and instead lets talk about Y now.&#8221; \u00a0Don&#8217;t fear the agenda, they represent conversational freedom. \u00a0Most people don&#8217;t realize that they have been structured so, unless someone tells them first about this secret world of agendas. \u00a0Next time you have a job interview or want to have a discussion with a coworker, give the agenda a shot and see how much more efficiently you use your time. \u00a0I guarantee your future employer will be impressed if you drop the agenda bomb on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agendas. \u00a0I&#8217;ll be honest I hadn&#8217;t given them much thought. \u00a0Then, Evan Addams spoke to our class and it was like a lightning bolt hit me. \u00a0Of course agendas are wonderful! \u00a0Once I looked back at some of my best experiences with business professionals, I realized they all used them. \u00a0These weren&#8217;t the boring, stifling, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}