In Meetings, Habits of "How to Decide" Appear More Than Habits of Speaking
Meetings in your forties and fifties are a little different from the reporting occasions of younger years. In a managerial or veteran position, not only the content of what you say, but where you stop the discussion and where you decide determines the movement of the whole. Whether a meeting drags on, and whether a conclusion is taken away undecided, depends greatly on the habits of judgment of the people present.
Here, from the qualities of the 12 signs, we organize as general discussion the tendencies in behavior that tend to appear in meetings. Please read it as material for knowing the parts close to the way you and those around you come across.
The Fire Quality — Aries, Leo, Sagittarius
The fire quality is a type whose power to move a discussion forward is strong. In meetings, conclusions tend to be hurried, but the way of proceeding differs by sign.
Aries has a tendency to put its own thinking into words quickly, immediately after an agenda item comes up. That speed becomes a trigger for discussion, but on the other hand, there are situations where it can become a judgment made before the materials have been fully read. If you decide that the first half of a meeting is time for listening, and make remarks only after the points at issue are in place, the accuracy of how you decide improves.
Leo is a type that is conscious of the flow of the meeting as a whole and of how the conclusion will look. Words that bring the place together are a strength, but there are times when you want to fix the overall direction first rather than checking detailed conditions. If you add an order where, after deciding the direction, you check the person in charge and the deadline on the spot, the discussion remains in a tangible form.
Sagittarius has a tendency for remarks to increase when the topic becomes a large policy or the future. Interest does not easily turn toward detailed work in front of you, and there are times when conditions remain even though you thought agreement had been reached. A habit of, at the end of a meeting, checking what has been decided and what is to be decided by next time, separately, fits well.
The Earth Quality — Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn
The earth quality is a type that values grounds and procedures. In meetings it plays the role of checking, but its carefulness can also be out of step with the timing of decisions.
Taurus has a tendency to find it hard to state approval or disapproval until numbers and track records have been checked. In a meeting where materials are insufficient, remarks decrease, and opinions tend not to come to the surface in situations where a decision is made. If you look through at least the main points of the materials in advance, it becomes easier to show judgment in the meeting itself.
Virgo is a type that is quick to notice gaps in conditions and discrepancies in numbers during discussion. Those points are necessary for a meeting, but if you enter from the details, the overall conclusion can slip to the back. A form where you line up points in order of importance and separate what is to be fixed in the meeting from what is to be fixed afterwards fits well.
Capricorn has a tendency to listen while thinking about whether the conclusion fits with the rules of the organization and long-term plans. Remarks are on the fewer side, but in situations where a decision is made, they carry weight. On the other hand, because topics such as a short-term trial tend to be treated carefully, if you listen with the scope of the trial and the time for reviewing it as a set, judgment becomes faster.
The Air Quality — Gemini, Libra, Aquarius
The air quality is a type whose power to organize information and relationships is strong. In meetings, it takes the role of expanding points at issue and connecting opinions.
Gemini has a tendency to be good at bringing out related information and other options one after another. Discussion becomes lively, but if points at issue expand too much, the conclusion can become scattered. If, after bringing out options, you add a word narrowing down yourself which one is to be decided today, the meeting becomes easier to bring together.
Libra is a type that goes between opposing opinions and looks for a landing point. Coordination is a strength, but if you do not show your own position to the end, those around you may no longer have a standard for judgment. Precisely when you take the coordination role, the key point is to show your own thinking briefly first.
Aquarius has a tendency to look at discussion from the side of systems and reasoning. Rather than individual cases, it may propose a way of deciding that works for the whole. That proposal is useful, but if it is distant from the circumstances of the front line, it can be hard to be received. If you speak by converting it into the movements of a concrete person in charge, it becomes easier to get through.
The Water Quality — Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces
The water quality is a type whose power to read the atmosphere of a place and the state of people who have not spoken is strong. In meetings, it may notice points at issue that do not come to the surface.
Cancer has a tendency to speak taking into account circumstances within the team and past background. The longer a person has been in the same organization, the more that memory helps a meeting. On the other hand, in discussion of a new way of doing things, past examples can come to the fore first. It is important to share the background, and then separate the part to be decided under the current conditions.
Scorpio does not make many remarks, but is a type that listens well to core conditions and the real feelings underneath. In a situation where a decision is made, it may state the center of the problem in a single word. However, if you hold back remarks until you can be certain, you can miss the opportunity to correct the course in the middle of a meeting. A form where you put out points you have noticed briefly, even in the middle, fits well.
Pisces has a tendency to be sensitive to the movement of the feelings of those present, and to make remarks that soften the place when it becomes tense. That softness is necessary for a meeting, but if the expression of the conclusion also becomes soft, what has been decided can remain vague. Restating what has been decided, in the end, as conditions leads to stability.
To Use Meeting Habits in Work
The habits differ by sign, but the judgments required in meetings are common. They are deciding things, deciding what not to decide, and bringing what has been decided down to a person in charge and a deadline. For example, when agenda items have increased too much in a weekly regular meeting, if you decide roles in line with your own habits in advance, it becomes easier to move. A person who hurries decides the order of listening, a careful person decides the scope of checking, and a person who expands takes the role of narrowing down. Such small ways of deciding support the quality of the meeting as a whole.
If there is a part close to your own way of coming across, please try just one of them in the next meeting. Skill in meetings is decided not by skill in speaking, but by the accumulation of how decisions are made.