Welcome to Manager Tools. Today's topic, Effective Meeting Starter Model. Part 1. Here we go to a lot of meetings and I'm afraid to say or sorry to say I should say that

most of them are terrible.

They start late, they don't have an agenda,

they get off track, they waste time,

you're starting to get the picture here.

You know, and they finish late, right?

But you can't leave early, even if you have another meeting.

Yeah, that one always bugs me, right?

It's like everybody knows that thanks to some Microsoft programmer and Outlook who decided

that all meetings should be an hour long. And again, for those of you who programmer and

again for those of you who are perhaps younger before and joined the the professional world when

It had already been digitized meetings used to be scheduled for 15 minutes or 30 minutes

or 45 minutes.

And now simply because of the ease of the electronic use

of outlook scheduling in the default of an hour,

which by the way you can change meetings just become

hours and you can look at people's calendars and they're literally just blocks of hours, right?

And it's just stuns me that people actually tell me, no, I can't leave because in this other meeting and you say to them,

well, are you, you know, was it valuable time of the meeting?

Oh gosh, no.

I mean, we were just getting going.

Or the other one is, well, it's usually pretty bad, but then everyone starts getting

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