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Use These Five Hacks To Rein In Meeting Madness

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Research indicates a consistent annual increase in the number of meetings since 2000, with many deemed unnecessary and unproductive, often lacking a clear agenda. While the pandemic has amped up the number and futility of meetings considerably, the frequency of meetings has been on the rise for decades. Maybe a half hour, tops.

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5 Ways To Avoid Well-Being Washing And Provide Authentic Support To Employees

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In a recent survey, 51% of participants blamed their boss for not taking the right steps to support their mental well-being. Foster work-life balance When IOSH asked survey participants which changes they’d welcome from their boss, flexible working was high on the agenda. This is already a reality for some, like in the U.K.,

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Stuck In Back-to-Back Virtual Meetings? Here’s How to Avoid Zoom Fatigue

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So, give your technology a bit of a brush-up to ensure you are optimizing your opportunity to engage as much as possible and not just staring at the same speaker the whole time. Slides, videos and photo sharing are all ways to break up the monotony. Use the polls and surveys feature. We inherently want to win. Theme the meeting.

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10 Changes Your Organization Must Make To Succeed This Year

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A McKinsey survey shows that AI has made a major impact on efficiency. Organizations must set a value agenda that clearly lays out which business units generate the most value for the organization, and which generate the least. times more likely to outperform direct competitors than are those that revisited roles less frequently.”

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11 Things Organized and Productive People Do Every Day

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We fear that slowing down and organizing will kill our productivity, but the facts suggest otherwise: The average office employee spends “at least two hours a day—or 25% of their workweek—looking for the documents, information or people they need to do their jobs,” according to Glean ’s 2022 Hybrid Workplace Habits & Hangups survey. “54%

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Master the Art of Hosting Engaging Virtual Meetings

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More than half of American workers surveyed would actively choose to sit through a doctor’s appointment if it meant that they could skip a similarly-timed meeting, virtual or otherwise. A survey from Forbes reports that 80% of executives favor in-person meetings over their virtual counterparts.

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8 Ways to Avoid Pointless Meetings

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survey of over 600 employees from 20 industries found that, “on average, employees have 17.7 survey found that “for companies of 100 people, cutting unnecessary meetings would save nearly $2.5 Set an agenda and stick to it. That assessment by the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author is right on. A 2022 Otter.ai

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