Re-thinking Meetings — Belinda Morgan

Welcome to another Flexible Success newsletter. Each edition includes a tip, a quote, a question and an interesting read - all related to flexible work. It's designed to be quick and easy to digest, and to provide you with some food for thought for the week ahead.

Theme: Re-thinking Meetings

A TIP

Are you in back-to back meetings today? Tomorrow? Every. Single. Day?!

Back-to-back meetings are a disaster for our motivation, performance and health. Yet they are still the norm in many large organisations today.

Unless you're the CEO, it might feel like there's not much you can do about this.

Here are a few things you can try if you want to start a quiet (or noisy!) meeting revolution in your corner of the organisation:

Change all 30 minute meetings you arrange to 25 minutes, and all 1 hour meetings to 45 minutes. Encourage those around you to do the same.
Ditch all status report meetings in favour of email updates.
Politely decline all meetings requests where your attendance is not essential.

A QUOTE

“People are working longer and later because they can't get work done at work anymore” ― Jason Fried & David Hansson, 'It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work'

A QUESTION

What's one thing you could do straight away to reduce the time you spend in meetings each week?

AN INTERESTING READ

For office and remote workers alike, back-to-back meetings are terrible for productivity and mental health. Read more in this Techradar article.

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