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Meetbug Makes It Easy to Find a Time and Place to Catch Up with Friends
Web: Services that promise to make scheduling get-togethers easy are a dime a dozen, but Meetbug makes the whole affair so easy you won’t feel like you’re struggling to find the right time—you’ll just...
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See How Much Unproductive Meetings Actually Cost With This Calculator
A lot of meetings end up being a complete waste of time , but that wasted time also means wasted money. This calculator will show how much an unproductive meeting really costs.Read more...
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Plan Your Work Week Around Your Energy Level to Make the Most of Your Time
Taking advantage of your “good hours” , when you have the most energy, to focus on what you need to get done is great for your productivity. Expand this idea to your whole work week by figuring out...
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Employ a "Silence Denotes Agreement" Rule to Get Better Feedback
A meeting with your colleagues is the best time to bring up new ideas or object to ones already on the floor. If that’s not happening, try suggesting a new rule: if you’re silent, that means you...
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Make Your Meetings More Effective and Efficient by Standing Up
One of our most popular productivity tips is to stand during meetings , and for good reason—sitting makes everyone comfortable and complacent, while standing forces people to stay on task. This video...
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Add Some Breathing Room to Your Meeting Schedule With the Margin Method
Back to back meetings can overwhelm your days and leave you with hardly any time to get anything else done. You can give yourself some much needed wiggle room with the meeting margin method.Read more...
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Three Easy Ways to Make Meetings More Accessible for Quiet Types
Meetings tend to be dominated by talkative people, and that makes it hard for the meeting wallflowers to feel heard. These three simple tips for before, during, and after the meeting will give everyone...
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Remind Yourself of Meetings with a Flashing Light and a Raspberry Pi
If you find yourself ignoring notifications and alarms about meetings, you might need something a little more in-your-face. Make offers just that, with a flashing alarm that’s hard to ignore.Read more...
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Tuesdays at 2:30 PM Is the Best Time to Schedule a Meeting
We’ve established that Tuesdays are the most productive day of the week , so it makes sense that a meeting on Tuesday would be best for a productive, useful meeting. And right after lunch is the best...
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Don't Schedule Lunch Meetings Unless You Plan to Provide Lunch
Few things irritate office workers more than booking a meeting right over lunch. Sure, it may be the only time most people’s calendars are open, but that’s probably because everyone’s trying to get out...
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If You Have to Reschedule a Meeting, You Should Offer the New Times
You should do your best to avoid canceling meetings, but life gets in the way sometimes. If you do you have to reschedule a meeting with someone, take ownership of the mishap and be the one to offer...
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Define Your Meeting "Type" Beforehand to Make Sure They're Productive
Whether you host or just have to attend regular meetings, you can make them more efficient by clarifying the type of meeting it is. You’ll get everyone on the same page, your meeting will be more...
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Keep Your Meetings Productive with a Low “Action to Decision” Ratio
Meetings where decisions are made but no one wants to be accountable for them, are the worst meetings. Keep that “action to decision” ratio low by ending every meeting with an “accountability summary”...
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Five Ways to Politely Deal With People Who Keep Interrupting You
“I’ve been giving it some thought,” I said in a team meeting at one of my previous jobs, “And I really think the partner listings on our website would function better if we—” “Let me jump in,”...
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GenderEQ Tracks Which Gender Speaks the Most During Meetings
iPhone: Ever been curious about exactly how much the men and women at your office speak during a meeting? GenderEQ can track that and break it down into percentages.Read more...
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Follow Jeff Bezos'"Two Pizza Rule" for More Productive Meetings
A party without cake is just a meeting, but a meeting without free pizza is no fun at all. This is why I was happy to hear that the Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, has a “two pizza rule” for holding...
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Schedule Shorter Meetings by Changing Your Calendar's Defaults
Meetings can be notorious time wasters. To make them short and to the point, change your office calendar’s default meeting length.Read more...
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Charlie for iPhone Introduces You to Who You'll Meet Before Your Meeting
iOS/Web: Charlie, the web service that gets you ready for meetings by briefing you on who you’ll meet, now has an iPhone app that will get you up to speed before your meeting if you’re on the go. Even...
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Stop Wasting Your One-on-One Meetings with Needless Project Updates
If you have regular one-on-ones with your manager (or if you are the manager), it can be easy to default to giving them boring status updates on your projects. Save yourself the time and bring up...
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Use Slack to Schedule Meetings With This Service
The only thing worse than going to meetings is scheduling them. You have to check with everyone’s availability, find a time and location that works, send out an invitation, and then bug people until...
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