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The meeting goer's lament.

H Meyer

    Fortune
    |September 29, 1980
    PubMed
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    Executives waste significant time in meetings, finding them unproductive. Improving meeting efficiency requires strategic participant selection, agenda management, and timely closure for better business outcomes.

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    Area of Science:

    • Business Management
    • Organizational Behavior
    • Communication Studies

    Background:

    • Executives dedicate a substantial portion of their workday to meetings, often perceived as unproductive.
    • The increasing reliance on persuasion and consensus over authoritarian structures contributes to meeting inefficiencies.
    • Societal shifts, rather than solely corporate factors, are seen as the root cause of declining meeting effectiveness.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To analyze the causes of unproductive executive meetings.
    • To identify strategies for improving meeting efficiency and effectiveness.
    • To explore the trend of companies investing in meeting skills training.

    Main Methods:

    • Analysis of executive time allocation in meetings.
    • Review of factors contributing to perceived time wastage.

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  • Examination of corporate training initiatives for meeting skills.

    • Main Results:

    • Approximately 69% of executive time is spent in meetings.
    • Participants frequently deem meeting time as poorly utilized, with this issue escalating.
    • Key factors for improvement include selecting appropriate participants, brisk agenda management, and preventing unproductive discussions.

    Conclusions:

    • Meeting skills are learnable and crucial for executive effectiveness.
    • Many large corporations are actively seeking external or internal training to enhance meeting management.
    • Optimizing meeting time is a critical goal for modern executives.