Your days are full, and it can be hard to get everything on your list done. You were finally making progress on a task when your focus is disrupted yet again with a meeting reminder. You don\u2019t know how you\u2019ll finish what you need to do today, and it\u2019s probably going to be yet another waste of time. Is this just the way things are, or is there a better way?<\/p>\n
According to The HR Digest<\/em>, professionals lose an average of 31 hours a month on meetings\u2013which adds up to approximately four workdays, or a total of two months per year. That\u2019s a lot of disruption, particularly if those meetings aren\u2019t actually yielding much. The problem isn\u2019t just an overabundance of meetings; it\u2019s that so many of them turn out to be bad meetings. But you don\u2019t have to settle for bad meetings that disrupt your work and kill productivity. Great meetings are possible with a little bit of forethought. Let\u2019s look at one of the first steps in that direction: determining the necessity and nature of a meeting.<\/p>\n Here are five filtering questions you can use to coordinate essential meetings:<\/p>\n Take control of your meeting habits. Routinely ask yourself, Is this meeting necessary?<\/em> If not, be decisive and eliminate the meetings that don\u2019t matter or that inhibit your productivity. Make the best use of your team\u2019s time and resources by focusing on the high-leverage stuff, and you\u2019ll start seeing less frustration and better results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Unnecessary and bad meetings disrupt your work and kill productivity. You can have great meetings, with a little bit of forethought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":51976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,29],"tags":[104,30],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n