There are two types of face-to-face meetings – those that are productive, efficient and produce actual decisions and outcomes. Then there is the other type in which a piece of your soul dies. | Annie Lawson | OPINION
A friend experienced the latter when she was summoned in person to a 50-minute meeting to discuss whether the meeting was necessary. “There was no outcome,” she said. Meetings about meetings rarely end well.
Some argue that high meeting loads haemorrhage productivity. You can’t work on a PowerPoint slide when the meeting host is sitting next to you. But others say a well-run meeting constitutes meaningful work.There are meetings that begin with a “safety share” where someone shares a lesson based on a personal experience to spare others the same mistake, which can be life-saving in hazardous professions.
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