You can avoid “lost productivity” meetings by:
- Not accepting meetings that you don’t need to be at – Think. Twice. Before you accept a meeting request.
- Asking for (or preparing) an agenda – nothing wrong with doing this before you say yes to a meeting invitation.
- Booking short meetings – there is no rule that says they have to be for an hour or half an hour. You’ll encourage people to be on time in the future if they get to a meeting and it’s almost over.
- Having stand-up meetings – no chair will help others get straight to the point
- Making your excuses and leaving a bad meeting – urgent text anyone?
Radical? Maybe
Practical? Absolutely
Do these tips work? Yep!
These have all been used in the Career Tips test environment.
Implementable? It’s over to you…
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Karen Adamedes is an experienced executive, author and career-tipster. In her most recent book ‘Professional in Pajamas: 101 Tips for Working from Home’ Karen shares many of the insights she has gained during a decade of working from home, where she has negotiated multi-million dollar deals, led national teams and delivered major projects. She does admit to sometimes working in her pajamas.
Love it…short and sweet Stacy!
I like standing meeting idea 🙂 … in my previous job our boss used to call meeting just before lunch hour. since everyone is hungry, no does extra talk. we talk to the point, view progress, assign tasks and be done in 30 mins.