Build new meeting habits for 2022

by MeetingScience | Jan 5, 2022 | Best Practices, Meeting Performance, Productivity

Changing and improving (or just plain starting new) habits are on the minds of many as we plunge into the New Year, and while you may not want to create 13 new meeting habits, we bet you can work on at least two of them this month:

1) Starting and ending your meetings on time

2) Including a purpose, goal, or agenda (PGA) for every meeting, even 1:1’s

Thankfully, our neuroscientist friend Dr. Andrew Huberman starts off Huberman Lab Season 2 with “The Science of Making & Breaking Habits.” If these two ‘best of the best’ meeting habits feel uncomfortable, you are not alone! But you’ll learn how to use neuroplasticity to your advantage to make them…habits.

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