Less Meetings, More Results: Techniques for Increasing Productivity
Is your team suffering from too many meetings?
You are not alone.
“Professionals now spend more than half the standard workweek — a full 21½ hours—in meetings, an increase of 7.3 hours a week just since the Pandemic began.” — WSJ
Good news! There are plenty of things you can do to reduce, reconsider, and refine your meeting obligations.
You’ve got meetings! I’ve got answers.
Download the Less Meetings, More Results Decision Map! You can print it out and post it on a wall or use it as a screensaver! Use it to help you evaluate if you need to have a meeting.
Related content: Video of 2022 “Pandemic of Meetings” workshop.I’m Linda Secondari + I’m a recovering meeting scheduler.
Learn from my mistakes + innovative insights.
I’ve developed a hands-on 2-hour workshop to teach you and your team how to get a handle on your calendar so that you have time to get the work done! #Productivity! I’ll teach you actionable solutions to free up your schedule by reducing meetings. The investment of 120 minutes will likely result in a 15% reduction in your monthly meeting commitment! Now that’s a meeting worth attending!
I know a thing or two about meetings. I’ve been leading them effectively and efficiently for major organizations like Oxford University Press and the Graphic Artists Guild.
LESS MEETINGS, MORE RESULTS: THE WORKSHOP
is a 2 hour workshop that can be adapted to your organization’s ways of working and needs.
Get in touch and let’s discuss how I can help you and your team get more of their productive time back!
A workshop about how to have fewer meetings? Sounds counterintuitive, but bear with me.
If you’d like to get some of your productive hours back you need this workshop.
This will be a hands-on workshop. Concepts we will explore:
Conducting a meeting audit
Managing up to challenge meetings you are invited to!
Making meetings accessible + inclusive
Implementing asynchronous workflows
Designing meetings that are productive + engaging!
During the workshop, you will:
Workshop bespoke solutions to specific meeting challenges
Develop a game-plan to leverage asynchronous communication
Tools you can use to ensure the meetings you have are productive + worthwhile
This meeting is for you if. . .
You are the person who is scheduling meetings
You are being invited to meetings
You have no time to work because you are always in meetings
You’ll receive actionable advice and get some great tools to determine if a real-time meeting is really the only option (or even if it is the best option).
Who should attend this workshop?
Anyone who has lots of meetings! Yes, that’s you.
Small Business Owners, Managers, Team Leads, Senior staff, Junior Staff, Designers, Corporate Employees, Not for Profit Staff, Freelancers, COO, CFO, Directors
In this workshop, I’m going to help you understand:
How to identify if you need to have the meeting, or if it should be an email?
How to assess if you can reduce the regularity of a meeting.
How asynchronous communications can help you free up more time.
Methods you can employ to move projects forward without meetings.
How to ensure the meetings you do have are productive and worthwhile
