When is the last time you actually enjoyed going to a meeting?
The fact is we have too many meetings and we hate going to meeting. A study by two psychologists out of the University of Nebraska, Professors Long and Rollenberg revealed in a study that the more meetings one has to attend and the more time one spends in meetings, the greater negative effect. And they go on to reveal that meetings that start late, lack structure, and run long are the most dreaded.
Furthermore, the indication of a meeting starting late or starting without all the invited parties had a direct effect on the perceived outcome of the meeting. For example, starting late equal poor organization, running late, and major dread.
And here’s the worst part.
After these long, unstructured, dreadful meetings, you are drained, which means that your productivity goes down. The way to change this that I found is one shorter meetings. I schedule meetings for 15 or 20 minutes. I do not schedule anything for an hour because if you do, you will try to fill that hour and the other person will too. So I make short meetings and if a meeting needs to be longer, maybe an hour, I make it 50 minutes.
If you put odd numbers in your meeting times when you invite people, they will pay more attention and pay more attention to time to making sure they get to the point, they show up prepared, and they’re ready to discuss what we need to discuss. Another thing that I do in meetings is determine at the beginning of the meeting what we are doing here. Are we addressing a question, a concern, or do we need a decision? And if you can start your meeting with that at the beginning, you usually can get meetings that were scheduled for an hour down to 15 or 20 minutes.
This week, schedule your meetings shorter, make them weird times like 15, 20, or even 25 minutes, and see what happens.
I guarantee you, if you put this into action, you’re gonna have a more productive day.
Your move.
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