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: … [Read more...]
Learn to say, “No.”
If you say, “no,” to irrelevant things every day, you can spend more time on work that truly matters. Leaders must be willing to say, “no,” to time-wasting activities so they can say, “yes,” to valuable work. Here are some prime candidates for a “no” response. Source: Women@Forbes, January 30, 2018. With your own team, ask each of your direct reports to make at least two … [Read more...]