Too many meetings?

Meetings. Catchups, Check ins, Status reports, Quarterly reviews, Project updates, Governance boards, Management meetings, team meetings, department meetings, all hands? Do you sometimes wonder: how do I fit in the work around all these meetings?

If it feels like more and more of your time is spent in unnecessary meetings, that’s because it is. Research shows that time spent in meetings is steadily increasing. The average full-time white-collar professional in the United States spends 21.5 hours a week in meetings. In one HBR study of senior managers, 65% said meetings keep them from completing their own work. 71% said meetings were unproductive and inefficient. Another study estimated uunnecessary meetings waste $37 billion in salary hours a year in the U.S. alone. Productivity was 71% higher when meetings were reduced by 40%.

What if there was a different way?