Cut Your Meeting Times in Half

In person or online, nearly all meetings are way too long, but there are easy ways to make them much shorter.

Most meetings are too long. This wastes time, creates stress and — in normal times — means that more space has to be allocated to meeting rooms. Any meeting can be made more time effective by following some simple rules.

Start with a clear purpose. Unstructured, directionless conversation is not a meeting. What makes an effective meeting effective is having a clearly defined purpose that can and should be…