Overcoming Meeting Overload
What Is Meeting Overload?
Meeting overload is not having too many meetings but rather it is the resentment of time and life wasted in ineffective meetings.
In today’s collaborative work environments meetings, virtual or in person, are a most effective communication venue. As meetings participation and the time we spend in meetings grows we cannot overestimate the need to enhance personal and corporate meeting quality.
Learning Outcomes
The Overcoming Meeting Overload Workshop shows you how to improve personal and team effectiveness by providing you with the controls you need to:
- Develop meeting objectives and goals to deliver higher personal and corporate value
- Avoid the risks of “title imposed roles”
- Use simple processes to improve your meeting participation and leadership
- Inject “think time” to ensure meeting outcomes
- Reduce meeting overhead with simple agendas, minutes, and notes.
The Meeting Effectiveness Framework™ 
Instead of rushing back to back meetings we can help. Like a well oiled set of gears this illustrated topical framework will help you develop your own meeting protocol and policies. Regardless of organizational cultures you are responsible for your actions and meeting effectiveness. Using common sense principles, practical tips and stories, this workshop will help you develop meeting policies that focus on the following critical areas:
1. Meetings Purpose and Goals
2. People Roles and Collaboration
3. Effective Process and Controls
4. Flexibility and Meeting Styles
” Our most recent project with Integrity+ was to review and improve our meeting culture. This helped us:
- Assess our meeting overload and resulting costs
- Become aware of the individual and organizational pitfalls
- Paint a roadmap to change
The results, senior management accepted a set of guidelines to change our overloaded meeting culture and set the stage in defining a set of measurable base line data to guide our personal and corporate improvement objectives.”
