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Your Best Meeting Ever

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Your Best Meeting Ever

7 Principles for Designing Meetings That Get Things Done

Simon Element,

15 mins. de lectura
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Takes the yawns and shortcomings out of your meetings.

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If you approach meetings with dread, you’re in good company. Employees hate sitting through meetings, wishing they were anywhere else, while others drone on about irrelevant agenda items. Now, Rebecca Hinds offers an astute blueprint for transforming your meetings from time-sinks into efficient venues for collaboration. She advises tearing down dysfunctional meetings and rebuilding them using seven core principles. Her challenging process requires patience, commitment, and action. But if you execute it, you’ll hold fewer and better meetings that eliminate waste, improve communications, save time, and support your goals.

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Declare war on mind-numbing, unproductive meetings.

A Harris poll found that 17% of American adults would rather “watch paint dry” than attend a meeting. This distaste for meetings rapidly intensified during the COVID-19 lockdown when leaders could no longer “manage by walking around.” They had to struggle to communicate normally with their employees. With many people working remotely at irregular hours, managers lost the ability to chat informally with their staff members in hallways and break rooms. Their solution: more meetings.

A survey of roughly three million workers across 16 cities worldwide found that the number of meetings increased by 13% within two months of the lockdowns. Elise Keith, founder of the meeting management platform Lucid Meetings, reports that Americans hold up to 80 million meetings daily, costing more than $1.4 trillion a year, which exceeds 5% of US GDP.

The trend toward holding more meetings is driven by non-traditional work shifts, economic turmoil, AI’s growing influence, and societal change. Meetings are often disguised as remedies for problems, but they typically achieve little, except for wasting time. Managers often...

About the Author

Rebecca Hinds, PhD, specializes in organizational behavior. She founded the Work Innovation Lab at Asana and the Work AI Institute at Glean.

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