For many of us, few meetings are productive and time-saving. The rest are why we don’t have time to focus on valuable work. Lisa Bodell offers 12 tips to reduce the pain of meetings. Here are our favorites from her tips:
- Mandate meeting agendas
- Don’t attend any meeting with more than eight people.
- Only attend meetings with a decision maker in attendance.
Source: Women@Forbes, March 29, 2018. Link.
For many of us, only a few meetings are productive and time-saving. The rest are the reason we don’t have time to focus on valuable work. Our time should be valued even more than money because we can’t generate any more of it.
INSIGHTS: Meeting sponsors are part of the culture of a company I recently visited. If the sponsor did not have the agenda in time to review and disseminate it at least 4 hours prior to the meeting, the meeting was postponed. The sponsor also timed the meetings to keep them on topic.