Breaking the Cycle: How to Prevent Meeting Overload and Boost Productivity

Posted September 18, 2024

In Highly Engaged Leader, Leadership Advice, Meeting Madness, Time Management

As a leader do you ever feel like no matter what you do, you can’t seem to feel or see the level of success you imagine your team is capable of? There is a solution…

Our meetings are broken.

LinkedIn recently posted some data about meetings: In the United States alone, over 80 million meetings occur daily. Despite the shift to virtual and hybrid work environments post-COVID, the inefficiency of meetings remains a persistent problem. Many employees feel that most of these meetings are unproductive, with no tangible results achieved.

It occurred to me recently that everyone is in agreement that meetings need to change. Another way to put it is that NO ONE, ANYWHERE thinks the way we do meetings is working.

Today’s coaching minute has 8 easy to implement changes you can make to both decrease the number of meetings you have and also make the ones you do choose to have, really count.

Brenda Abdilla P.C.C.

Brenda Abdilla is a distinguished authority in leadership development and organizational excellence. With her vast experience and unwavering passion, she has become the foremost coach and facilitator, dedicated to enhancing the performance of teams and the effectiveness of leadership. As a highly sought-after executive leadership coach, Brenda specializes in working with leaders aiming to enhance their team engagement. Remarkably, over 90% of Brenda’s clients successfully tackle their core leadership challenges within just one year of partnering with her. Brenda’s approach is decidedly different. She brings a solid business-centric background to her work with leaders, entrepreneurs, and high-level career coaching clients. Brenda understands the pressure and uncertainty (VUCA) present in today’s business environment and empowers her clients to significantly improve their team communication, time management and efficiency, stress management, decision-making, critical thinking, and all of the elements of corporate visibility and success in their role.