Do your employees complain about meetings? Have you tried introducing policies or technology to make meetings more effective, only to see bad habits and overloaded calendars quickly return? If so, your colleagues may be trapped by three...
This is a popular search. For those of you building infographics and reports and term papers, here’s the bottom line up front. Our 2022 best-guess estimates for the number of meetings per day in the US: 1976:...
Meeting overload, zoom fatigue, and too much time wasted in unproductive meetings: these problems grow during periods of rapid change. Bad meetings proliferate when we struggle to communicate well. And when things change rapidly, we need to...
I’ve been thinking a lot about how some teams are designed to operate with uncertainty, but most are not. The teams that operate in uncertain conditions never know what they’ll face when they show up to work....
“How can we reduce the time we’re spending in meetings?” I used to love it when clients asked me this, because wow – what a softball! This is easy math. To reduce time wasted in unproductive meetings,...
There’s a meeting on your calendar that’s fast approaching, but you’re just not sure about it. Maybe you’re too busy. Maybe your co-workers are too busy. Maybe you see it as an interruption that will keep you...
