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Joel Lindstrom
Senior Director of Power Platform, Low-Code & Automation at Hitachi Solutions America Power Apps Partner of the Year 2024| 3-Time Fast Track Recognized Solution Architect | 14-Time Former Microsoft MVP
I have a radical proposal: all meetings should begin at five minutes after the top or bottom of the hour. Scheduling 30 or 60 minute meetings back-to-back is wishful thinking--if one meeting runs over a minute or two, you will be late for the next one, so you have to be the "I have a hard stop" guy.
You are also assuming you don't need any time to change gears, capture your notes from the previous meeting, check your texts and emails, or use the restroom.
So let's make all meetings begin five minutes later (and be five minutes shorter). We will be more efficient because we won't be waiting for the stragglers whose last meeting ran over and we will have a couple of minutes at the end of a meeting if we need to finish a thought without a hard stop.
There is no 30 or 60-minute meeting that can't fit in 25 or 55 minutes.
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Organizational Development, Project Management, Strategic Planning, Communications, Coauthor of The Business of Race (McGraw-Hill)
5 年Psychotherapists have this down cold. No such thing as 60 minutes of psychotherapy. It's 50 minutes. And that's a no-joke boundary.?
Owner of Impact Gutters, LLC
5 年"TBS Time"
CRM ERP AI Transformational Delivery Leader | Business Transformation | Copilot | Microsoft Power Platform | 10 X Dynamics and Azure MVP | Chief Technology Officer
5 年My proposal is make meetings last 15 minutes. Give people 10 minutes to prepare for each meeting and 5 minutes to capture action items.
Data Analyst - Optics, Audiology & Marketing Insights
5 年Interesting proposition. I do wonder what proportion of people would continue to be 'just 5 minutes late' to the 10:05 meeting, arriving at 10:10.?
CEO | Empowering Teams & Organizations by Solving Complex Business Challenges with Microsoft Cloud
5 年Thanks for sharing Joel Lindstrom. I have started doing a lot more 20 min or 40 min meetings and usually avoid 1 hour or longer meetings unless really required. The previous default used to be 30 min or 1 hour meetings