Meetings are a part of life and especially of work, but who thought that the amount of time we spend in meetings would triple in the last 5 years?Yes, that’s a 3x increase – and it was pretty bad before!!
This increase means on average people are spending 28.3% of the week in meetings. Seriously?? This is madness and to make the nuts, nuttier, Slack carried out a survey that showed that 2 hours a day of meetings is about all people can cope with!
Action is what is needed to happen to stop this waste of everyone’s time. Whenever you get the urge to call a meeting just pause and think: ‘what is the point of this meeting’ ‘who needs to be there?’ and ‘how long do I need’. Then draft an agenda, make sure the contributors you need buy into the meeting, make sure you invite the bare minimum to attend and why not shave a few minutes off the meeting time you first thought of as well!
When the meeting eventually happens make absolutely clear why you are all gathering, and encourage people to own any actions that are agreed.
Now your friendly feathering friend at Meeting Canary can help you do all this. Actions will be captured and posted back into your own Teams tenant, meaning we don’t hold any of your sensitive meeting data whatsoever. Your security is our prime concern making Meeting Canary the safest note taking app out there.
But better than that Meeting Canary is all about ‘signals not surveillance’ and the kind of behaviours that make a meeting less fruitful will be spotted in real time and you’ll be able to act ‘in the moment’, things like energy dropping, focus being lost, people not being engaged with all live and actionable.
Best of all we provide a cost calculator into which you can add your own number for an average colleague hourly rate– which reminds people that meetings are expensive in time as well as money and are best run quickly and well.
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