#392 How to make every meeting matter

Squiggly Careers

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Careers, Management, Business

4.9 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Meetings consume our hours and our energy at work, so we want to make sure they also increase our impact! This week, Helen and Sarah talk about practical ideas to increase the value of time spent in meetings for you and your team. They explore how questions create better agendas, how shorter meetings can force clarity and debate whether doing in the moment is better than accumulating actions throughout the day. More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers: 1.Sign up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools: https://bit.ly/sc-podmail 2.Sign up for our monthly Squiggly Career Calendar: https://bit.ly/squigglycalendar_signup 3. Read our books ‘The Squiggly Career’ and ‘You Coach You’: https://www.amazingif.com/books/ If you have any questions or feedback (which we love!) you can email us at helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Helen and this is the Squiggly Careers podcast. Every week we talk about a different topic to do with work and we share some ideas and tools that we hope will help you to succeed in your Squiggly career. And if you are a new listener to Squiggly, welcome. You might not know that as well as this episode, we also
0:21.2	produce lots of different things to help you with your career. So you can download a one-page
0:25.8	summary of today's episode. We'll tell you what we're talking about in a minute. And you can
0:29.6	also join a weekly session that we do, which is called Pod Plus, where we talk to the community
0:34.4	about the topic. And actually, it's a really nice community people will share
0:38.0	their ideas and their experiences and if you ever need a little bit of a boost I think it's just
0:42.9	quite a nice conversation to be part of and it's all free you can find out the information
0:46.6	that in the show notes on Apple or just go to our website which is amazing if.com head to the
0:51.8	podcast page and you'll be able to see everything there. So today,
0:55.7	we are talking about meetings, specifically how to make every meeting matter, which you
1:01.9	might be thinking impossible task. That is an ambitious title for this episode, Hello
1:07.0	and it is a topic we have covered before, but it was a while ago. When
1:11.4	I was researching? I was like, when did we last really talk about meetings? It was episode
1:15.6	110. So that is many episodes ago. And it was back in 2019, i.e. pre-pandemic. And so I think
1:23.8	talking about meetings pre-pandemic is quite different to the way that we work now.
1:28.9	It's probably one of the things that has changed the most, actually, in how we have meetings now.
1:33.6	And there are some particular differences that are sort of worth being aware of because it informs what we're going to talk about today.
1:39.6	So A, more meetings.
1:41.3	So average time teams users spent in meetings has more than tripled between
1:45.3	Feb 2020 pre-pandemic to February 2020. And obviously that's just on Microsoft Teams as a platform.
1:51.8	The mix of meetings has changed. So perhaps unsurprisingly, remote meetings have now increased by
1:57.9	60% since pre-pandemic. And also the quality of meetings. So we might be
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