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Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Today's tip is that you are not a middle school student changing classes.
So don't go passively from thing to thing in your schedule without focusing on what each meeting accomplishes.
One of the most frequent concerns I hear from listeners is that their work days are consumed by back-to-back meetings.
So there's no time to get their actual work done.
They become like middle schoolers changing classes, going from your one o'clock to your two o'clock to your three o'clock to your four o'clock.
Things that have just appeared on your schedule and that you have no say over.
I understand that frustration. It boggles my mind how much staff time businesses are willing to spend on meetings. without considering the actual return on investment.
If you are an organizational leader, Do a time audit and figure out how much time your team is spending in meetings.
You may be able to cut this time significantly. by being a bit more judicious on how long meetings are, who attends, and whether any given meeting is actually necessary.
But if your organization's meeting schedule is not up to you, you still can be intentional about your own participation.
It can be easy to acquiesce to a calendar full of meetings that you didn't schedule, so you wind up tromping through a day like a middle schooler changing classes. but that may not help you accomplish your core work.
So here's a few ways of avoiding it. First, to the extent you can, be selective about what appointments you make.
Just because you received a calendar invitation doesn't mean you need to go to the meeting.
Could someone else from your team go? Could you just read the minutes?
Does this topic need a meeting at all? Or could you handle it through email?
Or within the context of another existing meeting?
If you are new to your company or junior, you may have less ability to decline a meeting or delegate it.
But you may still be able to avoid some meetings by accomplishing their goals before the meeting is supposed to happen.
For instance, if the meeting purpose is to start planning an orientation for new program participants. and you send a draft agenda for the orientation before the scheduled meeting, the project leader may decide you don't actually need to meet after all.
Or you might be able to address the topic of a planned meeting during your regular one-on-one meeting with your boss and then avoid the other meeting.
In addition to being choosy about which meetings you attend, I also recommend being intentional about the times you schedule meetings for.
Maybe you aim to schedule meetings in the afternoon or at the end of the week, so you can leave mornings or the beginning of the week for deep work.
There are also ways to make the most of the meetings you do go to.
If you are leading a meeting, create an agenda, circulate it in advance so everyone arrives prepared.
If someone else is leading the meeting, request the agenda in advance.
Offer to draft one if nothing seems forthcoming.
If nothing else, your agenda will make the meeting more useful.
For every meeting you do go to, think through what you need to get out of it.
After all, the purpose of gathering people is to change something in the world.
So what should be the outcome? What questions do you need answered?
What action steps need to be planned? think about who else will be at the meeting.
Is there anything you need to touch base about?
During and immediately after the meeting, make notes for yourself and communicate with anyone else you need to about next steps. you may be able to complete some action steps within the scheduled time for the meeting itself.
That can leave at least some time open in the rest of your schedule.
The big idea here is that going passively from meeting to meeting does nothing for you or your employer. you need to make sure you're using meetings to advance your own and your team's goals.
Otherwise, you are just changing classes. passing the time, rather than doing something with it.
And time is just too valuable for that. In the meantime, this is Laura.
Thanks for listening. And here's to making the most of our time.
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The Big Three playoffs. This Sunday, the remaining four teams battle to make the championship in the most physical, fierce, and competitive basketball league in the world.
The action starts with the Big 3 Monster Energy Celebrity Game.
Then Dwight Howard and his LA Riot take on Montrezl Harrell and Dr. J's Chicago Triplets.
The finale will see popular Miami 305 with stars MVP Michael Beasley and Lance Stevenson take on Nancy Lieberman's Dallas Power.
Who will make it to the Big 3 Championship?
The No Holds Barred action starts Sunday at 3 p.m.
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