The Meeting Fix
Discover how much time your meetings are quietly draining -- and what it is costing your team every month
Your Team Details
Meeting Quality Check
Research* shows that meeting quality has a direct impact on team productivity and trust:
- 71% of senior managers say meetings are unproductive and inefficient
- 65% of meetings prevent people from completing their own work
- Only 50% of meeting time is considered well spent by attendees
- Teams with clear meeting disciplines make better decisions faster
*Sources:
- Meeting effectiveness: Harvard Business Review, "Stop the Meeting Madness" (2017, updated 2024)
- Scoring model anchored to HBR baseline: average meeting = 50% effective; range 20%-80% based on seven quality indicators
- Time in meetings: Bain and Company, "The Time-Starved Executive" study
Think about how your team's meetings typically run. For each statement, choose the option that best reflects your reality.
Your Meeting Time Drain
*Effectiveness scoring anchored to Harvard Business Review research which found that the average meeting operates at 50% effectiveness. Your score reflects how your team compares to that baseline.
And this does not include the cost of decisions made without full information, the frustration of people who leave unclear about what was agreed, or the repeat meetings relitigating what should have been resolved.
What you can do this week
Pick one meeting this week and apply these four disciplines. Just one meeting. See what changes.
Ready to plug this drain?
If meeting time drains are affecting your team, a 20-minute conversation can identify the practical fixes to apply straight away.
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