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Speaker 1: Today's tip is to be strategic about your meetings. By
Speaker 1: understanding exactly when they'll be happening, you can be better prepared,
Speaker 1: manage your energy, and figure out what times you can
Speaker 1: do non meeting work too. Collaboration is amazing in theory,
Speaker 1: none of us has all the answers. In practice, though,
Speaker 1: what it means is that most jobs and big organ
Speaker 1: zations involve a lot of meetings. This tendency to schedule
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Speaker 1: of people are working from home. You can't see your
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Speaker 1: by being a bit more mindful and strategic, you can
Speaker 1: manage your meetings better. Here's what you do. By the
Speaker 1: time you start work on Monday morning, take a good
Speaker 1: look at your calendar for the week. When do you
Speaker 1: have meetings summer? No doubt, weekly recurring sorts in summer
Speaker 1: one off types. Figure out how many hours you currently
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Speaker 1: all these meetings have to happen? We've talked in previous
Speaker 1: episodes about seeing what can be canceled, ask for agendas
Speaker 1: for anything that seems iffy, anything that is a one
Speaker 1: on one check in might be better approached as a
Speaker 1: quick phone call, So go ahead and make that call.
Speaker 1: The goal is to reduce the overall meeting load. Then,
Speaker 1: once you're clear on what's staying, figure out what you
Speaker 1: need to prepare for. When people get busy, they just
Speaker 1: start tromping from one thing to the next, like middle
Speaker 1: schoolers changing classes. Here's my two o'clock, my three o'clock,
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Speaker 1: you can prepare for anything that requires preparation, and mark
Speaker 1: these times on your calendar, and finally, take a step
Speaker 1: back and look at the landscape. Not all meetings for
Speaker 1: the week will be set by Monday morning, of course,
Speaker 1: but when you see what time is available, you can
Speaker 1: decide what time is good for meetings and what isn't.
Speaker 1: For instance, if you've got no meetings on Wednesday morning
Speaker 1: and two in the afternoon, I'd suggest that if someone
Speaker 1: asks to meet on Wednesday, you offer any remaining afternoon
Speaker 1: slots that leaves the morning open for individual focused work.
Speaker 1: One of the most aggravating parts of organizational life is
Speaker 1: that people feel their schedules are chopped up. They never
Speaker 1: have time to achieve that state of flow. Some of
Speaker 1: this is inevitable, but some is self imposed. You don't
Speaker 1: have to give Wednesday morning away unless there's a really
Speaker 1: good reason. The upside of mapping out your meetings is
Speaker 1: that you can approach the week feeling far more confident
Speaker 1: and ready for what's to come. You'll steward your energy appropriately,
Speaker 1: you'll perform better in the meetings that happen, and there
Speaker 1: may be fewer of them, and they'll happen at times
Speaker 1: that work better for you. Given how draining meetings can be,
Speaker 1: that's really the best possible outcome. So today, approach your
Speaker 1: calendar with this strategic spirit, map your meetings for the week,
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Speaker 1: life feel more doable. In the meantime. This is Laura.
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