1014: How to Make Meetings Better for Everyone with Calendly’s Darren Chait

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🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Darren Chait discusses how to make meetings more engaging using data from Calendly’s State of Meetings 2024 research.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why 81% of respondents want more meetings

2) Three meetings to keep—and the one to stop

3) Surprising statistics on meeting etiquette

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— ABOUT DARREN —

Darren Chait is the VP of Marketing at Calendly, leading the world-class marketing organization. Previously, he was a co-founder of Hugo, the leading meeting workflow solution powering meetings for tens of thousands of customers backed by Google, Slack and Atlassian.

In a prior life, Darren was a corporate lawyer at one of Australia's leading law firms, where he attended meetings for a living – the start of his passion for meetings and the future of work.

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• Website: Calendly.com

• Study: The State of Meetings 2024

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0:00.0	The thing about meetings is we love to hate them, but it's where business gets done.
0:11.5	So the fact that we're letting the value of these meetings dissipate into thin air when the meetings end, doesn't make sense.
0:17.5	Your meeting culture and the way you meet has to be purposeful and intentional based on the way your
0:23.4	organization operates.
0:32.1	That's Darren Shate. He was the co-founder of Hugo, and now he's Vice President in Marketing
0:36.5	at Calendley, who recently put out a study on the state of meetings in 2024.
0:40.8	Darren shares some insight on how to make meetings more productive.
0:43.8	So you'll learn one, why 81% of folks want more meetings, two, three meetings to keep and the one to stop,
0:50.2	and three, surprising statistics on meeting etiquette.
0:53.2	And if you'd like to see a summary right above some of these takeaways,
0:55.5	I recommend you sign up for the gold nugget free email newsletter at awesome at your job.com.
1:00.5	I'm Pete McItis.
1:01.4	This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job.
1:02.7	And now, here's Darren.
1:07.6	Darren, welcome.
1:08.9	Thanks, Pete.
1:09.4	Thanks for having me.
1:10.7	I'm so excited to get into your unique vantage point, your insights, your wisdom.
1:16.1	So you work at Calendly, which is my all-time favorite, meeting, scheduling software,
1:20.2	using it in two businesses.
1:21.3	So great job, guys.
1:23.0	Good to hear us.
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