QUESTION 10
HOW CAN I MAKE MEETINGS MORE PRODUCTIVE?
Why it’s important: If you call a one-hour meeting and six staff attend, that’s seven hours’ work that didn’t get done. You need to make sure it was worth the trade-off.
Meetings are the bane of modern business life. We all complain about them but then get annoyed if we’re excluded from a meeting that we think we should have been at. It’s likely that you will have to attend a lot of meetings chaired by colleagues or senior managers. There’s not much you can do about how they are managed – other than avoiding the worst time-wasting events if possible. But there are plenty of improvements you can make to your own meetings.
WHAT TO DO
- Only hold a meeting if it’s absolutely necessary.
- Avoid establishing ...
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