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Beware of the meeting trap: how leaders should manage their time

Brimstone Consulting

Be intentional with your time. And beware of the meeting trap. Time is the scarcest resource leaders have. How a leader chooses to allocate their time is a reflection on their priorities and how they lead, and directly impacts their effectiveness and the performance of the organization. Be intentional with your time.

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Stress and decreased engagement are just two reasons we need to stop scheduling back-to-back meetings

Brimstone Consulting

By changing how we approach meetings and how we run meetings, we can connect and communicate more effectively – and reduce stress and fatigue. One week, the study volunteers participated in four half-hour meetings that were scheduled back-to-back.

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Designing a hybrid workplace? Avoid this mistake.

Brimstone Consulting

Meeting had devolved – in an effort to be inclusive, they included large numbers of people from across the organization, but little was being accomplished in the time allotted and many felt confused as to why they were required to attend. Finally, we worked with the organization to go back to the basics of meetings and emails.

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If You Multitask During Meetings, Your Team Will, Too

Harvard Business

Unfortunately, managers typically have very limited visibility into what their own behaviors may be signaling to their team and how the team might be reacting. We’ve used this technology to study the behaviors of tens of thousands of managers in several large companies and found some consistent patterns. Multitasking in Meetings.

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Designing a hybrid workplace? Avoid this mistake.

Brimstone Consulting

Meeting had devolved – in an effort to be inclusive, they included large numbers of people from across the organization, but little was being accomplished in the time allotted and many felt confused as to why they were required to attend. Finally, we worked with the organization to go back to the basics of meetings and emails.

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Don’t Wait Until After the Meeting to Start Your Action Items

Harvard Business

Watch a video of the workshop on the company intranet or read the survey feedback? If this sort of time crunch sounds familiar, you are not alone. It wasn’t long after becoming a manager that I found I had landed on a seemingly endless treadmill of meetings. The Seven Imperatives to Keeping Meetings on Track.

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How to Eliminate the Whirlwind & Increase Productivity

Rick Conlow

As a manager, one of your responsibilities is to remove obstacles and barriers – and an uncomplicated way to do this is to “trim the fat” off your team’s schedule. Identify the meetings that can be eliminated, take tasks that you ought to tackle, and shift things around that make sense. Pulling It All Together.