Commentary
This SmartBrief survey graphic underscores the need for better meetings. Too often meetings are called without intention and result in more meetings. Two articles address meeting overload, restructuring them and improving results.
The Nano Tools for Leaders® from Wharton Executive Education offers tips to halve the time and double the impact of your meetings. It is a proven guide to quickly implement effective tools, easy to learn and to start using in under 15 minutes.
Source: Knowledge at Wharton. Link. The 25-minute meeting roadmap has three steps:
- Set-up: purpose, people, process
- Show-up: preparedness, punctuality, presence
- Speak-up: participate, produce, proceed
Also see: Meeting overload is a fixable problem, Harvard Business Review, October 28, 2022. Link.
INSIGHTS: Culturally well-planned 25-minute meetings will require a commitment to preparation that may be unfamiliar in some organizations. Paying attention to punctuality and proper preparation may take coaching but will save the collective time often wasted across the team. Contracting an outside meeting leader can be helpful in rebuilding how meetings are conducted and reduce internal friction.