Why Most Meetings Fails.

Meetings are called to “Solve Problems”. and “Make Decisions” Why Most Meetings Fails. Did you heard things after the meeting like “What was the purpose of that meeting” or "What exactly am I supposed to do now” or Why did they need us there”?

1. No Clear Meeting Purpose
2. Wrong Participation
3. Lack of Action Planning
4. Dysfunctional Participant behaviour
5. Conflict
6. Lack of Participation
7. Only one person dominating the conversation.
8. People call meetings because they are afraid to make a decision.

Failure of meetings give:

1. Burned out Workforce
2. Lack of productivity and innovation
3. Lack of Collaboration.?
4. Unnecessary expenses
5. Less time to perform actual work
6. Destroy Morale and Motivation

71% said meetings are unproductive and inefficient. Spending 70-75% of the?workday in meetings. Develop an aversion or hatred towards ineffective meetings. Not enough companies teach their employees how to run an efficient meeting that is worth people’s time.?

Don’t you think participants should know or be aware of how much that meeting is costing the company and evaluating whether or not it is worth it. Just look around your next meeting, estimate the salary of those in the room, turn it into hourly and then add up how much that meeting is costing the company.?

CEO’s spend equivalent of two work days each week in meetings, according to a study by Bain & Co. Bain found that attendees spend 7,000 hours a year in the weekly senior leadership meeting, and subordinates spent 300,000 hours in related meetings and prep time!

There is urgent need to protect employees most precious resources: TIME and COGNITIVE overload.?

Mark Cuban and Elon Musk both dislike meetings. Elon Musk said “the only way you’re going to get me for a meeting is if you’re writing me a check”. Once told to Inc. Magazine.

Do you think meeting are unproductive or too much meetings are unproductive. The University of North Carolina surveyed 182 senior managers in various industries :?

1. 65% said meetings keep them from completing their work
2. 71% said meetings are unproductive and inefficient.
3. 64% said meetings come at the expense of deep thinking.?

Fully packed calendar was once a status symbol; today, it is a sign of poor leadership and poor judgement. Time is so called “zero-sum game” which means that every minute you spend never comes back.?

Use Six Thinking Hats If you want to :

1. Focused, productive and engaging meetings
2. Time Saver
3. Moderate your meetings/structured meetings
4. Determine clear objectives
5. Become the person people love being in meetings with.
6. Run effective and efficient meetings

Use Six Thinking Hats if your objectives are :

1. Problem Solving : Use to work through an issue or solve problem.
2. Decision Making : Use when facts have been investigated and you are ready to move forward
3. Planning Meeting : Like the problem solving meeting, limit attendance to important stakeholders and those who will execute the planned work.
4. Foster Collaboration, Creativity and Innovation.

Effective leaders learn to conduct efficient meetings that foster genuine debate, probing for solutions that best serve the organisation.?

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