Over the last few years, I’ve taken part in almost 2,000 meetings. Not all of them are at the same level.
Here is what I have observed and the 9 best practices you need to make your meetings effective.
Research has found the average professional spends a third of his time in meetings. That’s as much time as they spend sleeping. Normally not at the same time…
Are your meetings moderately effective, do they stall, are they laborious, waste of time, are they exhausting, lead nowhere, force you to reschedule another meeting to close the subject?
You may be falling into several traps. Having led or taken part in a number of meetings in recent years, here are the best practices I observed: