Transforming Meaningless Meetings into Meaningful Meetings

By Jeremy Wilt Published: January 25, 2016 “We should consider whether our meetings provide value. … When you leave a meeting with a sense of accomplishment and shared understanding, it was a worthwhile meeting.” The first step to overcoming any addiction is admitting there’s a problem. The business world is addicted to meetings. We demonstrate what we value by what we put our time and energy into. In most companies, people spend the majority of their time either in meetings or working on ideas or activities that began in meetings. From the Board of Directors and the executive leadership team on down throughout entire organizations, most companies have a growing dependence on meetings. We’re now so used to meeting just for the sake of meeting that many of us walk like zombies from meeting to meeting and find ourselves staring at bullet-point presentations, shared screens, and video-conference systems for hours at a time. It’s no wonder that many meetings leave us feeling demotivated, disillusioned, and exhausted. Yet, with all the time we spend in meetings, we rarely stop to question why we meet.

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