Feel like you spend half your life in meetings? | Issue #254
How to make your weekly team meetings more impactful
Feel like you spend half your life in meetings? And they’re a pointless waste of time? You’re not alone. Research shows that workers spend an average of 31 hours monthly in unproductive meetings. The average executive manager attends at least 12 meetings every week. That’s crazy. And many of these are a total waste of time.
So why don’t companies make impactful meetings part of their culture-building? Maybe it’s because there are norms of behaviour that say this is how we run our meetings, and you can’t change it. But we should be able to change this aspect of culture-building. Who wants to waste their time sitting in a meeting they don’t need to attend? Or one that has no point to it?
Successful team meetings are where the rubber hits the road. They’re the living embodiment of your culture. Give me one hour to observe a meeting in your business, and it will tell me everything I need to know about your company.
So how do you create more productive team meetings?
E260 | Igniting Team Collaboration in the Digital Age with Jim Kalbach
Does it feel like something is missing in your remote work environment? Have you been told to just schedule more virtual meetings to enhance collaboration, only to end up feeling disconnected and unproductive?
Jim Kalbach, Chief Evangelist Officer at Mural, had always been an advocate for remote work, long before the world was thrust into a virtual environment due to the pandemic. Working with Citrix, makers of GoToMeeting, he had already been navigating the remote collaboration space for over a decade. But, he quickly realised that the conventional etiquette of an in-person office setting didn’t translate well into a virtual space. The norms, the rituals, and even the simple act of turn-taking in a meeting required a rethink.
In this week’s episode, Jim will uncover the untapped potential of remote work and the transformative power of collaboration tools and will walk us through the common pitfalls of virtual meetings and how to turn them into productive engagements.
Download and listen to learn more.
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Quote of the week
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”
Aristotle
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