5 tips for dealing with meeting overload | The Way We Work, a TED series

Could this meeting have been an email? The phenomenon of "calendar creep," where meetings completely take over your work days, is wasting time, energy and productivity -- but you can take back control. Leadership expert Cindy Solomon shares her five tips for clearing up your schedule and getting your calendar to work for you, not against you.

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[tiujasmine]

5 Tips
1. Ask urself do u really need the meeting
2. Invite less people
3. Use less time
4. Say no to other's meetings
5. Be ruthless with your time

[DemetriPanici]

Honestly we need to schedule less meetings and send less emails. I've been reading Cal Newport's new book "A World Without Email" and it's been great!

[internetandlifehacks]

These tips can actually save us a good deal of time and energy! Thanks TED :)

[conniefletcher]

I’m stuck going to meetings led by people who don’t think this advice is for them.

[DemetriPanici]

*“Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.” - Edwin Way Teale*

[geigerruready]

I totally can use all of this 90% of my day is meetings!!!

[heatherframpton]

Thank you! I shared this with my husband who is an academic program director. This content is so accurate! 😁

[dafluffernut]

Every day. So many could have been emails. Providing the information first for”review” would be great.

[craighowat]

Try doing some real work the perfect antidote to meetings

[ShemielYah]

Last days

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
‭‭2 Timothy‬ ‭3:1-7‬ ‭

[oxnyxws]

Hardest one I learned is leave. Yes if you're part is done. Smile and walk out. If you need practice clutch your phone and say I need to get this

[horaciohernandez]

I was part of the corporate world for a LONG time. Hated every second of it. Money was good but life was sh!t!. I craved freedom. From BS and deadlines.. I used my vacation hours and went on a cross country trip with my high school trucker buddy. It opened my eyes to what I was looking for. FREEDOM. It’s what I was looking for. I’ve been a professional trucker for 12 years now and would recommend it to anyone who feels trapped in their corporate cage.

[jeanniebarsam]

Great advice Cindy! It was so nice meeting you at the Women in Retail Leadership Conference 2 weeks ago!

[yukikowu]

Great tips, especially about having a purpose statement and not accepting every meeting you are invited to. The only part that I slightly disagree with is “only invite the decision makers” because sometimes that can make mid level managers feel invisible and ignored, and also, non-decision makers are often the “worker bee” types who are in the actual weeds and have valuable insight to share.

[survivor]

Yes yes with deadlines and not being able togetmy work done I started blocking my calendar until my boss got ticked off when people complained I would literally only block a couple of hours a few days a week funny thing is I had a coworker that always missed deadlines and my boss told him to block time then when I did just that he called me on it.

[profitpurpose]

I have in excess of 30 hours of meeting each week and then I am expected to perform in my role.

[bklynbeef]

My job has daily meetings, I skip them 2 to 3 a week because it's a huge waste of time

[olivialopez]

My life has totally changed since I started with $7, 000 and now I make $ 29, 450 every 11 days.

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[AnilAnvesh]

None of these work India. We don't have progressive minds. We know only one thing, just crush everyone 😂