Start your meetings at 5 minutes past
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Start your meetings at 5 minutes past
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#2#leadership is really sending me on this one
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#3#leadership is really sending me on this one
That PHB pic is more relevant than the author is willing to admit to themselves.
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#5Apart from just a quick breather between back to back meetings, it also provides a critical bio-break time for your attendees.
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#6We do this at my work and guess what - meetings tend to run 5 minutes late because everyone knows the next meeting doesn’t start until 5 past.
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#7If you have so many back-to-back meetings, maybe put in a school bell that chimes at 5 minutes before and 5 minutes after the hour. Please just put this in your conference rooms so those of us who know how to evade meetings don't have to hear it as well.
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#8We do this at my work and guess what - meetings tend to run 5 minutes late because everyone knows the next meeting doesn’t start until 5 past.
Yeah, this works because it's novel. If it became the norm, people would adjust to it and we'd right back where we started.
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#9Meetings run long so frequently that we now recommend starting the next meeting late to compensate.
This will surely solve the problem.
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#10> there is social pressure not to allow meetings to run much past the top of the hour.
I've never seen this pressure.
> meetings rarely started on the dot anyway before this change.
It's like I live in an entirely different world.
Start meetings when they say they're going to start. People will learn to show up quickly. I think that works better than trying to psychologically game people into cooperation. That just starts the classic treadmill. You might have that one friend that you tell to show up half an hour before everyone else. They mentally add the half hour back because you're always giving such early times. Better IMO to just keep things simple. Let people leave when they need to. Show up on time.