Thursday, September 24, 2015

Let Me Work, Please: A Case for Fewer & More Productive Meetings


If you feel like your workweek is structured around meetings—like all you re doing is preparing for and attending meetings, talking about and reporting on your work rather than sitting and doing it—then you ve reached a point of frustration where you need to regain control of your time. There are two sides to meetings: not attending them if they re unnecessary, and when running a meeting, ensuring that it s purposeful, on-point, and driving a specific outcome. If the meeting lacks purpose and has no desired outcome, what s the point? Today s workplace The current workplace is operated on a model that doesn t promote productivity. Many offices are built around the open office concept, which serves as an ideal delivery system for distraction. This open-plan environment may promote camaraderie, but constant noise damages attention spans and workplace productivity. Even the most sophisticated noise-canceling headphones cannot defend workers from inevitable but unpredictable waves of i
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