3 Types Of Wasteful Meetings Every Leader Should Ban From Their Calendar

Nobody celebrates meetings.

They despise them. Dare I say they even hate them? Your team loathes meetings because of the conditioning of past meetings; they’re wasteful, boring, useless, and a massive misallocation of time.

The reason?

1/ The Legacy Meeting

These are old, re-occurring meetings that stay on your calendar because they’ve always been on your calendar.

I used to have a weekly leadership meeting. We would pile into the conference room to discuss our KPIs and several topics. It stayed on the calendar because it was a weekly re-occurring meeting. Over time, it became forced and just another meeting.

So I canceled it.

2/ The Poorly Run Meeting

These are meetings that don’t have a good structure.

There’s no purpose, no agenda, and the meetings never have clearly articulated action items. Without a purpose, there’s no point in the meeting. Without an agenda, the conversations are a free-for-all all — a waste of time. And when there are no action items, nothing get’s done.

If a meeting is poorly run, look to improve it or unschedule it from your calendar.