I like to schedule late meetings just to mess with the older dudes.
Great idea but they need to limit emails as well or else those will go through the roof with no meetings.
The Procrastinators Anonymous meeting has been postponed indefinitely.
Honeywell had a policy that a meeting had to have a leader, an agenda and someone had to produce minutes. The agenda was often an action register. Each action had an assigned actionee. He’d report on what he’d done. It was very effective. At subsequent companies I’d do the same thing and mostly ended up running the show even though I was often not the guy in charge. In a meeting with an action register there was no need for separate minutes. For a meeting that required minutes the trick was to be the guy who wrote them. Then, regardless of what happened at the meeting, I’d get whatever I wanted done by putting it in the minutes. Nobody ever called me on it.
I know it.
Constant meetings are a sign that nothing is getting done.
They can’t do that. I get my best sleep during meetings.
Most meetings are a huge waste of time. That said, I used to hold a 25 minute department meeting every morning at 8am. Made sure everyone was focused on what needed to get done that day...worked very well.
I like to schedule late meetings just to mess with the older dudes.
This presumes employees are passively attending all meetings for which they have been scheduled.
I would decide which meetings I attended and for how long I attended them. But I did see people who did nothing but attend any and all meetings. However I was more selective.
How to get out of a meeting early.
The same people that support Agile. spit
Other things:
How about reduce all meetings 50%.
How about, meeting lengths cut in half, or to a max time and then, done.
“If it’s important enough to have a meeting, isn’t it important enough to have a recorder?”
“Thank-you. You will no longer be required to attend these meetings.”
Meetings are like sex. if you plan ahead and do it right, everybody involved benefits.