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...
McKinsey poses this timely question this month: "If we're all so busy, why isn't anything getting done?" They offer the following diagnostic on the root cause: "There’s seemingly no excuse to not collaborate. The problem? Interacting is easier than ever, but true,...
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...
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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...
In partnership with our Members, we've worked hand-in-hand to study the habits of highly successful meetings in 2020. And over 100K meetings later, we see patterns emerge that drive peak meeting performance. Here are 5 simple ways that you can get the most from your...
We're excited to announce the release of Ratings 2.0 for all MeetingScience Members! In this blog post, we'll share a little bit more about the history of MeetingScience ratings and why we made the investment to build the next generation of rating capabilities....
From CNN Business comes this article, a follow-up to the research revealed earlier in August which shows an increase in meeting load and strain during the pandemic. CNN canvassed several companies on what they're doing to reduce meeting load during the pandemic,...
Laura Vanderkam is the author of several time management books including Off the Clock and 168 Hours. In this Medium piece, she shares the question that she asks before calling a meeting: What crucial change will result from bringing people together, that could not...