40Hone the Habits of Meeting Management
A 2005 Microsoft Office Personal Productivity Challenge study of more than 38,000 people in 200 countries found that in the United States workers spend 5.5 hours a week in meetings, with 71 percent proclaiming that these meetings are unproductive. Who knew? What exactly makes these meetings time-wasters? Usually it’s a combination of poor planning, poor execution, and poor follow-up. To add more gumption to your next gathering:
Assign Pre-work
If you want to raise the stakes for those attending, give the attendees something to think about or prepare prior to arrival. Among other things, you can ask them to read background information, come prepared with a suggested solution to a given problem, or show up ...
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