Navigating Meeting Overwhelm
In today´s episode of ‘Professional Success Podcast’ your host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, shares tips on how to navigate meeting overwhelm. She talks about various ways to manage meeting overload.
Episode Highlights:
· Meetings can be excellent drivers of collaboration, connection, innovation, and alignment when scheduled for the right reasons, with the right people, and with the right objectives, says Sheila.
· Think about your time like you think about finances. Think about where will you invest and how you will save.
· You'll improve your filtering capability over time in terms of deciding whether to attend a meeting.
· Declining a meeting is about protecting your time; it's not a rejection of the work or the host.
· When you're the one hosting meeting, model the consideration that you’d like to be offered to you, and offer grace to those who decline.
3 Key Points:
1. We need to adjust our meeting mindset, and make better decisions about when to hold meetings, or attend meetings. Our time and energy are finite resources, and it's our job to be mindful of how and where they've spent.
2. Before deciding on attending a meeting, think if that meeting is worth your time. Will it allow you to participate in an important conversation, or will it build important relationships?
3. In case you decide on declining a meeting, you need to do so strategically. Ensure that your response to the organizer is courteous and subtle, and it captures that exact sentiment.
Tweetable Quotes:
· “When we walk around with a single solution in hand, we assume every problem requires that exact solution.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
· “There are outcomes and impacts that are yours that you need to deliver.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
· “But that's yours to invest or to save, don't allow someone else's agenda to shape your day.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
· “There's no formula that tells you whether a meeting is worth your time” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
· “We need to be creative, and how we want to achieve outcomes.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
· “I think it's worth celebrating every 15-minute increment that you win back.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
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