We spend 10 hours a week preparing for or in meetings,half of which are a waste of time. How can we get them work for us?When someone asks what you do for a living, you probably don’t answer: “Sit in meetings all day.” And yet a see at the average commerce person’s schedule makes it easy to forget that meetings are a means of doing a job, or rather than the substance of the job itself. One recent survey found that the average UK employee spends over 10 hours every week preparing for and attending meetings – around half of which they deem unnecessary. But,because other people occasionally know things and don’t serendipitously expose up at our desks to impart that knowledge when we want them to, meetings are here to stay. Fortunately, and there are ways to get them more productive,or at least not soul-sucking and awful. Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk