20 unforgivable meeting sins
“The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favour of holding meetings.” T. Sowell
How many of you nodded at the quote above?
You may need to have some meetings, but we can guarantee you don’t need to have all of them. Stop jeopardising your own productivity and break these inefficient meeting habits right now.
Most of the cardinal sins of meetings are fairly self-explanatory but if you or your team would like more help, contact us for a free consultation.
20 unforgivably inefficient meeting habits
- Starting late
- Running over the scheduled time
- Repeating early information for latecomers
- Waiting for latecomers before starting
- Holding it in the wrong location
- Inviting the wrong attendees
- Not having a clear agenda
- Ignoring the agenda
- Too many attendees (spoil the meeting…)
- No decisions taken
- No accountability taken for any of the issues raised
- No follow-up actions assigned or worse, taken
- Recurring meetings just because they always have…
- Attendees not listening
- Attendees distracted by refreshments
- Last minute technology problems caused by ill-preparation
- Last minute cancellation and rescheduling
- Last minute meetings (in a non-emergency situation)
- No need for a meeting – an email to all attendees would have been perfectly sufficient
- … what’s your favourite meeting timewaster?
Meetings are only a valuable resource when used sparingly and only when absolutely necessary. Next time you consider arranging a meeting, think about whether you really need to. If there is a viable alternative – use it!
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