Meetings are an integral part of the working world these days - they are often time-consuming. Not every employee always understands the purpose of attending certain meetings.
With five tips, meetings can be made more productive - the company and employees benefit equally. Metafinanz advises organizers to ask themselves the following four questions before scheduling a meeting with colleagues: “Do I need outside input to make progress?” “Have I thought through the situation?’ “Does this require an in-person meeting?“ “ Do I need a synchronous conversation to move forward? “Are there enough participants in a meeting to eat two pizzas?‚” says Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. “If a schedule is available and reliable, participants can also specifically move on to the agenda items that are relevant to them,” advises Wirtschaftswoche. ‘If at all possible, meetings in which you should definitely avoid certain formulations should not last for hours.’