Work Smarter Not Harder: 18 Productivity Tips That Boost Your Work Day Performance by Timo Kiander

Author:Timo Kiander [Kiander, Timo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Work Smarter Not Harder: 18 Productivity TIps That Boost Your Work Day Performance
Publisher: Timo Kiander
Published: 2015-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

Without an agenda, there is a great risk of letting the meeting go off-topic. Naturally, this wastes everyone’s precious time.

If the meeting organizer doesn’t send you an agenda with the meeting invitation, ask him/her to send it the participants before the meeting.

Is it possible to limit the duration of the meeting?

If you give a meeting two hours, you’re likely to fill that whole time with discussion whether or not it’s relevant to the meeting’s topic. Instead, why not give the meeting a shorter time allotment, so that it can be held faster?

For instance, I was a software developer in my previous job. To keep all the team members up-to-date on the latest project developments, we had daily 15-minute meetings at the end of the work day. Since everyone knew that the meeting was going to be short, people didn’t slip to off-topic matters and the meetings were in fact finished in 15 minutes.

Is it possible to test the meeting technology before the actual meeting?

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