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How many meetings do you have in an average day or week? Do you find meetings are taking up more and more of your time?
Whether they're online or face-to-face, busy professionals attend up to 60 meetings a month! They're one of the biggest sources of wasted time, frustration and stress.
It's easy to end up with back-to-back meetings or to overbook or even double book your time. Especially if you don't have a strategic approach to how you manage your calendar.
Whether you control your own diary or your Assistant or colleagues set up appointments for you, it's important to have a few guidelines in place for how you and others manage your time and your availability.
Simple Guidelines For More Effective Meetings
Block out WORKING time. Create time to actually get work done. Time for Admin, Finance, Marketing, Report writing etc. Avoid meetings being booked into any and every available time slot when you have important work to do.
The same applies for exercise and personal time. Block it out in your calendar at the beginning of the week or as a regular time slot before your diary gets filled up with meetings and appointments.
Block out MEETING time. Are there certain days/times that are better for meetings or times to avoid? If other people have access to your calendar - set aside blocks of 'meeting' time in the week. Meetings can only be booked into those time slots. Avoid a scatter-gun approach where you end up with meetings all over the
place.
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