Recent research shows this drives effective meetings

So you’re trying to run an effective meeting? Likely you are fed up with the little value you feel you get out of them. Rest assured: you are not alone. In a recent survey we conducted for <a href="https://codebeautify.org/%22https://ratemymeeting.co/%22" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Rate My Meeting</a>, only 27% said to feel productive in their meetings. Most (45%) feel like time is wasted. And yes, this correlates significantly with the size of the organization. With an average of 8.5 hours per week spend in meetings (~ 1 workday per week), that is a bad emotion to associate with meetings and thus your work. <h1>Macroeconomics of meetings</h1> We can safely say the majority of our respondents have a negative sentiment towards meetings. How about macro statistics? One research among 1,900 business leaders estimated that daily we run about 11 million meetings (US). And that number has gone up for 72% of the respondents in recent years. Half expects this number to increase further in the near future. Business leaders also feel (65%) that meetings keep them from completing their work, and that meetings are mostly unproductive and inefficient (HBR, 2017). Another research put a number on this ineffectiveness and estimated (2015) that organizations lose 37 billion USD due to it annually. Finally, some of the most admired business leaders like Musk and Bezos repeatedly emphasize the negative impact of meetings on productivity (<a href="https://codebeautify.org/%22https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/13/jeff-bezos-mark-cuban-and-elon-musk-all-avoid-meetings.html/%22" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">CNBC</a>). So yes: running meetings cost businesses money and hits both leadership and employee morale. <a href="https://groesbeek.at/recent-research-shows-this-drives-effective-meetings-5c63b732eb40">Read More</a>