Meetings: How to REALLY Make the Most of Them

Meetings are notoriously inefficient and time-sapping. Here's some advice on how to make the most of them

Picture the scene (we’ve all been here): you have a to-do list as long as your arm that you need to complete before the end of the day, plus your Slack is pinging and your emails are dropping out the bottom of your inbox. You look at your calendar, and you’re back to back with meetings, and it looks like - yet again - you’re not going to be able to make a start on your workload until about 6pm.

You wonder if there are any you could cancel or drop out of, but the culture at your company is such that you don’t feel like you can. Plus, every invite has come from someone more senior than you and you’re on the “required” list, not the “optional” list.

So you go along to them, and as you sit in your third meeting of the day, watching the clock and listening to your colleague go over the same point thirteen time - a point which has no impact on you or your work - you wonder to yourself, “why did I accept this meeting in the first place?!”

You think about how much time you’re wasting by sitting there. Surely there’s a better way? Well, this wouldn’t be a very good blog post if it wasn’t giving you some help and advice!

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