On an average weekday there are 1 million meetings happening in the UK, a scary thought considering 48% of employees feel that unfocussed meetings are the largest workplace time waster! The simple maths tells us they feel 480,000 of those 1 million meetings waste their time and your money!

Do we ask them why they feel this is the case, in most instances the answer will be no because ‘this is the way we have always done things’ and they are one of the 80% of business leaders who have never been trained on how to manage meetings.

Before you chair your next meeting ask yourself

• Does the meeting have a clear objective – what is the purpose?
• Is there a clear agenda – what are we going to decide?
• Do we have the people we need – can decisions be made?
• Is there information we can share before hand – to save time?

If you have all of this covered your questions ‘to meet or not to meet’ will be answered loud and clear – if not consider this – if nothing changes, nothing will change and your meeting will be one of the 480,000 that are seen as a waste of time!