Why All Managers Must Audit Their Legacy Meetings to Improve Results and Not Waste Time

Meetings are wasting people’s life.

According to Protocol, “the average professional had 5.6 one-on-one meetings per week, up from 0.9 in February 2020.”

Meetings are a vortex of useless babble enacted by managers who seek control. They schedule meetings as it’s something they’re supposed to do.

Unnecessary meetings lead to Zoom Fatigue. But Zoom or any other video conferencing technology isn’t the problem; too many poor meetings are the problem.

That’s why all managers must routinely conduct a legacy meeting audit:

Can the meeting be eliminated with minimal impact?

Does your meeting actually produce tangible results?

If not, delete the meeting. Your team will thank you. When you have a meeting just to have it, time and money are wasted.

Invest those resources into areas that matter.

Can we reduce the frequency of the meeting?

Sometimes you have a meeting too often.

I once had my sales meetings every week, but it was too much. So after a meeting audit, I changed it to bi-weekly, and…