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Managing Meetings: How to Drive Productivity and Success

Tom Spencer

Meetings can either be a powerful catalyst for collaboration and decision-making or a drain on time and productivity. Whether you are in consulting, strategy, operations, or product management, the ability to manage meetings effectively is a crucial skill that can significantly impact the success of your endeavors.

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Strategies for Managing your time and boundaries

Brimstone Consulting

” Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the average workday in the United States has increased by 40% and time spent in meetings has increased by almost 30%. The complexities and systemic disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic have made managing time and boundaries more challenging than ever.

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Before Day 1: Taking Advantage of the In-Between

Tom Spencer

Without having to spend time and energy prepping for interviews, you will find plenty of time in your schedule and room in your mind to learn something completely new. Maybe you do not want to learn something new, but this is also a good time to try a new activity. Try a New Activity.

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Why doesn’t my team learn from training? What can I do about it?

The Management Centre

These new skills allow for a more confident approach, better interactions with others, utilising tools or techniques with more efficiency and / or effectiveness, new ways of working or even enabling learning in others. For example, if your colleague is late to every meeting, sending them on a time management course might not cut it.

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Stop Scheduling Conference Calls and Finally Commit to Videoconferencing

Harvard Business

If you knew about a technology that would help you improve organizational alignment, cut meeting times, and increase engagement in discussions, surely you’d use it all the time, right? Meetings Take Half as Long. The Seven Imperatives to Keeping Meetings on Track. Do You Really Need to Hold That Meeting?

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I Ran 4 Experiments to Break My Social Media Addiction. Here’s What Worked.

Harvard Business

Before beginning my experiments, I tracked my daily behavior to better understand where my time and energy was going, which gave me insight into what I could change to produce more satisfying deep work. It was easier to replace a bad habit with a better one than to focus all my energy on eliminating the bad habit.

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