In previous posts I mentioned that humans are not very good at multi-tasking and that you should probably leave boring meetings because they are a waste of time. But even better than that is not to have boring meetings in the first place, but rather meetings that feel so important and productive to you that…
The topic of too many, too inefficient meetings is definitely not a new one. But when we agreed on our most important team values in my current project recently, the uncontested number one value was efficient meetings. Our team felt that we have too many meetings with too many participants and too little remaining time…
Context switches are expensive for human brains and even though many managers (other people too, but managers definitely) have convinced themselves that they can easily handle a multitude of tasks at the same time (e.g. take a second call and answer emails while in a meeting) the truth is they will underperform at all of…
Managers often get a lot of meeting invitations and I am no exception. And when it comes to meetings with many busy participants they sometimes tend to be scheduled very early in the morning, very late in the evening, during lunch breaks or on Fridays. So if you don’t enforce any rules on your calendar,…
Different employees have a different level of bravery to make decisions on their own. Sometimes, they are missing required context, they are uncertain whether they are allowed to decide something or they don’t want to be held responsible for the consequences of a decision. This is when they turn to their manager and ask them…