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Google Calendar: Cancel useless meetings!
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🕵🏻 Audit your recurring meetings
- 71% of professionals waste time every week due to unnecessary or cancelled meetings
- The biggest culprit is recurring meetings because you forget to question whether these meetings are necessary even after a period of time
- Year end is the perfect time to adopt my colleague Laura Mae Martin’s tip on auditing your recurring meetings!
📸 What do I do?
- Make a copy of this Recurring Meeting Audit spreadsheet
- In the “Clean” tab, input Columns B through E (i.e. understand your Current State) based on your current weekly schedule
- Determine new frequency and/or duration for each recurring meeting and input decision within Column G
- Check in with meeting organizers and participants and suggest the new meeting frequency and/or duration!
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Pro tip: If you feel uncomfortable telling colleagues you’d like to cut down on the number of meetings and/or duration, tell them this is a “best practice” you heard about and wanted to try out.This takes the pressure off you and I can be that a**hole!
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