“But I am a really good at multitasking”. Collaboration and communication are critical to our success, especially a small team like ours that is geographically distributed.įirst, watch this video (it’s 100 seconds)… What I am suggesting is that we become more aware and be fearless to re-think how a big chunk of our time is used (at least for me). To be clear, I am not suggesting that we stop talking to one another. Given that I was not meeting with myself, it also meant that I was taking up your time as well! As much as I like all of you, I plan to spend a whole lot less time in meetings and am encouraging you to do the same. All the while, I thought I had internal meetings under control (and I know 33% is likely less than my peers). 33% of my productive time was spent in internal meetings. Memo: Making time to makeĪt the end of last year, I did a time audit using my calendar and the results were surprising. Here is a memo I sent to my team at the start of the year. Since we deemed Tuesdays and Thursdays as internal meeting free days at Polar, and introduced other guidelines, the amount of time I spend in internal meetings is now 20% (which I’m satisfied with…for now). I decided to drastically reduce how much time I spend in meetings, which means reducing how much time everyone spends in meetings. The reason I started a company and why people join our small team is to have an opportunity to make.
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I’ve made it my mission to kill the time we spend during meetings.Īt the start of 2016, I did an audit of where I spend my time ( view the full audit here) and was surprised to learn that 33% of it was spent in internal meetings.Īfter further thought and reflection, a deeper theme surfaced: making versus meeting.
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