Meetings are a crucial part of most working schedules, but there are few of us who feel we make the most of them. New research from Bibby Financial Services puts the problem in perspective. As many as 42 per cent of entrepreneurs think that more than half the time they spend in meetings is unproductive.
Alarmingly, Bibby calculates the aggregate cost of all this dead time as being worth £25 million each year. The most commonly cited downfalls for meetings are:
- failing to stick to the agenda
- colleagues being unprepared
- disruptions from outside the meeting room.
So what’s the solution? It sounds obvious, but it’s a matter of holding fewer meetings. Owners and senior managers need to have the confidence not to get bogged down in internal meetings.
Instead, you should delegate well and let people get on with things. Your time is better spent focusing on the bigger picture rather than micro-managing everything in an endless round of meetings.
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