The strategies may differ according to your industry, workplace practices and teamwork requirements, but there are some basic elements to making any meeting more efficient and less time-consuming: Focus on ways to reduce time-consuming meetings, and how to have more short ones in place of the longer ones.
I also don't think that time-consuming, soul-killing meetings at work are conductive to creativity or productivity.
After a number of time-consuming and fruitless meetings with them, the CEO came to understand that the analysts were interested only in immediate, dramatic change regardless of the long-run effects on the company.
Low-tech visual management systems — Post-It notes stuck on centrally located whiteboards, for example — can also serve as information dashboards for managers to track their teams' progress without the need for repetitive and time-consuming status update meetings or email blasts.
Although time-consuming, these daily meetings played a crucial role in ensuring that all response aspects were covered while avoiding the duplication of efforts, and in fostering mutual trust and confidence among intervening partners.
It may take some time to acclimate, but you may also find that reducing the number of time-consuming face-to-face meetings is productive.
Organizing and preparing the audit meetings and holding the meetings was time-consuming and therefore expensive.
David Ledbetter, executive vice president and chief scientific officer of Geisinger, said that the program's complexity made it too time-consuming: conference calls upon conference calls, meetings upon meetings, without much progress.
Terrell, who had served more than eight years on the board, said she resigned because the meetings were time-consuming and did not address curriculum, her primary concern.
Use these to take a break, decompress or attend to less time-consuming actions arising from a previous meeting.
To mobilise MNHG members to attend the meetings and to write diary episodes after each meeting were necessary and time-consuming duties for the facilitators.
