The problem with meetings is that you can't always tell going in which meetings will be good or bad. Here are a few ways to make meetings a lot better: 1. Canc

The problem with meetings is that you can't always tell going in which meetings will be good or bad. Here are a few ways to make meetings a lot better: 1. Cancelling meetings where a leader is trying to create a crisis where no crisis exists. A lot of new managers and bad managers thing that every time something out of the ordinary comes up it is a five-alarm fire. The meeting often starts with the leader saying something eternally wise like, "Somehthing has happened. It might be bad." Often the solution out of these meetings makes less sense than the Chewbacca defense... Something like, "We had five minutes of downtime, so to prevent that we're replacing Joyburst with Yerbae in the fridge." 2. Replace routine status report meetings with a chatbot. If a manager needs status, just have people send it in. No need to waste two hours every day for 10 people. Meeting takes 2 hours, counting prep, chatbot takes less time than meeting prep. 3. Ensure every meeting starts and ends on time by empowering people to leave if the host is unreasonably late or when time is up without fear of retaliation. If we expect people to get things done, we have to respect that they have time to do work. If you think your meeting will take an hour, it is your responsibility to end it in one hour. 4. Always put problems on trial, not people. Meetings where everyone is attacking or piling on are abusive and leaders who allow them or orchestrate them are abusive, too.