by Randall CraigFiled in: Blog, Communication, Make It Happen Tipsheet, ManagementTagged as: Meetings, Schedule
Does every meeting you attend need to feel like a marathon? Sometimes yes, but most of the time, meetings drag on inappropriately – or at least they seem to.
How quickly can you finish a meeting? If it is scheduled for 30 minutes, can you get it done in 20? Or 10?
Unlike speed-dating, where the object is to meet as many people as possible in as short a time as possible, the idea behind speed-meeting is to pare the agenda down to include only those items that require the meeting attendees to be there.
If a meeting typically takes 3 hours, and is attended by 10 people, slicing the time in half frees up 15 hours: two entire person-days of work effort!
On the other hand, speed-meeting is not a good concept if your goal is to foster teamwork or develop relationships (eg initial sales calls, job interviews, employee evaluations).
Choose your next regularly scheduled meeting, and pare the time down by half. Then think through what must change for this to happen? Is anything really lost? There is nothing wrong with marathon meetings, but learning how to sprint – speed-meetings – is just as important.
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