Your Team is frustrated! Are your team meetings effective?

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Bangalore: Sumant Jain, a Project Management graduate, remembers his first team meeting for a project simulating in his course lasting a little over eight hours. Yes you heard it right! Over eight hours. The employees and the management of companies, especially startups, spend very long hours on meetings every week. But, are these really productive hours or are they going waste? Keep a track of all your meetings and you will see that the length of the meeting is inversely proportional to productivity. Longer the meeting the less productive it is. Here are certain ways through which you can make sure that these hours are as productive as they can be. Necessity of the Meeting
Before scheduling a meeting, make sure that it is really needed. Can the same job be done with a few emails or a couple of calls? If so, try to avoid the meeting as it is an enormous waste of time for all those who are involved in it. Only when a real pain point that has to be discussed and brainstormed on comes, go for the meeting. Likewise the number of meetings can be reduced by a large percentage and the time can be spend on work that deserves the attention. Mind you, this does not mean that all the meetings should be cancelled and the interaction should be on phone or through mail.

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