Friday, January 17, 2025

How to Run a 15-Minute Meeting



Photo by Christina Morillo: https://www.pexels.com/photo/group-of-people-on-conference-room-1181396/


I advise all my clients to run shorter meetings because we are now in the Attention Scarcity Age, where everyone (including employees and managers) are overwhelmed, overworked, and have short attention spans.  

The productivity of longer meetings start to drop after 15 minutes, and participants will start to multitask and lose focus.

The key to keeping meetings short is to:

1. Set a short, focused agenda.

2. Prior to the meeting, send out any background info so the participants are
ready to hit the ground running.

3. During the meeting, ruthlessly focus on that agenda.


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