Could you reduce your meetings to zero meetings per week? Could that outweigh the perceived benefits of social interaction and cohesion? And how about productivity and stress? Determining these outcomes was the objective of a recent study published in MIT Sloan. In...
95% of meetings need agendas, period. The science on this is clear. Unfortunately, too often we see the opposite to be true, namely, that on average, just 5% of meetings have agendas for the average meeting attendee (or organizer). While disheartening, it's not...
Daniel Pink, the best-selling author of the newly released The Power of Regret, published another New York Times best-selling book in 2018 titled When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing. In that book, he reveals, through meticulous research, that, among other...
According to a new report from the Pew Research Foundation, more (American) workers prefer to work from home and will continue to do so if given the choice. Among the report's highlights: Most (64%) of those who are now working from home at least some of the time but...
"Why am I so busy?" (or are you really?) Dorie Clark is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Long Game, Entrepreneurial You, Reinventing You and Stand Out, which was named the #1 Leadership Book of the year by Inc. magazine. She also teaches at Duke's...
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At the start of the year, we referenced starting and ending your meeting/s on time as your number one habit of 2022. There are a host of measured psychological reasons to not start late, including these: "groups in the lateness condition showed substantially less...
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...
With 2022 around the corner, now is the perfect time to take stock of what we've learned about meetings and what can make them awesome. What can you do to make your meetings soar? Here are 12 ideas: 1) Start and end your meetings on time 2) Include a purpose, goal,...
Seemingly everyone who is not a meeting scientist has a theory or piece of research to support the claim that you should turn off your camera during meetings, most recently in this Harvard Business Review article. None of this new research conjoins camera activity to...
It is sadly not widely known that there are two ways to shorten default meetings for Outlook: With Office365, it's just a few clicks away: Settings > Calendar > Events and Invitations > If you're not used to using the browser-based version of Outlook, then...
The team at First Round Capital recently published a 25-tip guide to running executive meetings. There are some helpful tips to put in your pocket for your next executive meeting. At the same time, we found that the list missed 7 scientifically proven ways to improve...
Not returning to the office for a while? Possibly forever? Here are 34 tips on how to make the most of your home/remote office. Some starters: Create a dedicated space for your office Start working when you normally start your commute, not when you'd normally get to...
Companies that prioritize employee health and wellness will be protected from the 'great departure' that's projected for the next 18-24 months as individuals re-evaluate their work-life balance in the wake of COVID. We believe that prioritizing wellness starts with...