If you want people to show up, data shows these are the best meeting times
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If you want people to show up, data shows these are the best meeting times
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#2New blog: Our team at Boomerang (https://boomerangapp.com/) analyzed 3.5 million proposed meeting times, putting the conventional wisdom about the best ways to schedule meetings to the test. The results are surprising, and busted some common myths about the best days and times to schedule meetings.
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#3> But the data shows that offering only one or two proposed times, even if they’re “good” ones, isn’t the best way to get a meeting scheduled.
Definitely counterintuitive, the strength of the effect (2.4x acceptance rate for 3+ options) was eye opening.
Re: If you want people to show up, data shows these are the best meeting times
#4New blog: Our team at Boomerang ( https://boomerangapp.com/ ) analyzed 3.5 million proposed meeting times, putting the conventional wisdom about the best ways to schedule meetings to the test. The results are surprising, and busted some common myths about the best days and times to schedule meetings.
Interesting article, but very clickbaity. Here's the gist:
> The best time to schedule a meeting is at 11am Monday morning... this time period has the least potential for conflicting with other meeting invites.
> Avoid Wednesday and Thursday afternoons... the potential for conflicts is high.
> Providing three meeting slots will suffice. [The article actually says seven, but only because it's content marketing for an app that lets you offer seven slots]
> Time of invite matters. Adding a last-minute event to someone’s calendar probably won’t be well-received
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#5> The best time to schedule a meeting is at 11am Monday morning. People want to get meetings done and off the calendar, and this time period has the least potential for conflicting with other meeting invites.
> Avoid Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. These are the most popular times to offer, meaning the potential for conflicts is high.
In case anyone else was interested in just their answer to the title question.
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#6And if you want Meetings to be effective 1. Give out a short bullet point agenda for every meeting and 2. Take a break every 45 minutes.
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#7And if you want Meetings to be effective 1. Give out a short bullet point agenda for every meeting and 2. Take a break every 45 minutes.
45 minutes is already long meeting… From my experience longer than 30 minutes group meetings were never productive.
Re: If you want people to show up, data shows these are the best meeting times
#8New blog: Our team at Boomerang ( https://boomerangapp.com/ ) analyzed 3.5 million proposed meeting times, putting the conventional wisdom about the best ways to schedule meetings to the test. The results are surprising, and busted some common myths about the best days and times to schedule meetings.
I am unsurprised that earlier-in-week have more accept's than later-in-week. Weekends are a reset.
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#9And if you want Meetings to be effective 1. Give out a short bullet point agenda for every meeting and 2. Take a break every 45 minutes.
> Take a break every 45 minutes.
Perhaps things are different at the top of the tower, but in my experience if your meetings are regularly longer than an hour I'd say you're doing it wrong, or you're holding a workshop and not a meeting.
Get the right people in the room, have a clear agenda and someone to lead the meeting if needed, and it's rare that more than an hour is needed. Often far less. At least in my world. My most productive meetings are around 15-20 minutes.
If you're holding a workshop then I agree, take breaks.
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#10It's also culturally dependent -- I noticed US-based employees prefer to schedule a meeting for an idea and discuss/think/make decision on the meeting.
EU and even more so Asia-based employees prefer to first discuss the idea on multiple 1:1s for a long time, to discuss / think / make decision with everyone, come up with some harmony before any formal meetings. And the meeting itself would serve only ceremonial needs -- to let the manager officially declare the idea live.
That creates cultural clashes, when some people schedule a meeting to discuss something, but others decline or don't understand why are they here.