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Many companies when you contact Mid Level Managers and top management is immersed in meetings. Do you think excess meetings just kill time and there is no time left for execution as only plans are made on papers, computers and board and then time flies away for execution. Please let me know your opinion.
Excessive meetings are a sign you have the wrong team
This isn’t really in the “reasons to stop having meetings category” but it’s something to think about. If you have to constantly meet with your team on issues you may have the wrong team. Especially if those meetings are constantly to train existing team members on things the rest of your team (and/or the rest of the industry) just gets. You should have a team that’s interested in keeping their marketing/PR skills razor sharp because it is something they have a passion for. Don’t tell me this is “pie in the sky,” that’s the answer of someone who refuses to realize their org may require radical changes.
Meetings, in many cases, spawn busy work
Due to the unproductive nature of meetings, many managers will feel a need to assign multiple tasks to team members during the meeting so they feel like something productive comes from the meeting. But these off the cuff tasks and ideas are usually not well fleshed out or thoughtfully considered. They are usually just busy work stemming from the fact that people aren’t meeting for a productive reason in the first place. This isn’t always the case but can be with the wrong management team.
Solutions:
Sometimes it may so happen and one should not give up as the reason may be genuine.
If it frequently happens then perhaps the approch has to be different.
Sometimes it happens
Dear Kapil,
Please explain your question more clearly in order to give you the best answer.
Regards,
Hany Sewilam
Yes, Excess Meeting kills valued time.
Meeting is necessary for planning of any thing and group decision for the execusion in which time frame to be decided for the same. But if we do meeting daily or weekly, it just kills time and divert focuse form the execusion.
I had simillar problem in my previous company, so many meetings with senior people and many more reports for the meeting, which was taking my half of the work valued time. comparing to this in curent company, we have only meeting fixed on every first monday of the month where we discussed about action taken by everyone on the planned strategy, collect feedback and take decision if any minior changes required. so we get a month for the execusion of the sales strategy as per planning.
yes i have many times,especiallyif there is no well established procurement department.
but if contacting mid level and senior level managers to sell them something outside the scope of the company's interests,it has been a problem.
one way to solve this problem is target the area and building entrance and exit with our advertising material,signs,......
meetings will never end. if you want to sell them anything just use creative and direct marketing focused on getting their attention around work area and not inside.
target the stop signs,traffic signals,building entrances,...etc. always take them off guard.
it worked for us and hope it works for you.
it is unconventional but we must use every acceptable and legal way to get our message through