Percentage of inconsqueential matters in daily meeting
By ravalarun
@ravalarun (337)
India
September 28, 2010 2:07am CST
Now days, Meeting craze are in all industries. Small scale, middle scale, hues industry, arranging meeting for solve problems, and it is necessary for organisation. But you ever thought about all subject are important to share or discussing in meeting? Organisation works on clock, daily meeting is inflacting time and employee behaviour. Now meeting issue going on wrong ways, persentage of importancy gown down in meetings. whats your opinon??
2 responses
@NoWayRo (1061)
• Romania
28 Sep 10
I bought "meeting clocks" for all my co-workers. They're available from a wide range of online shops. Basically, each employee inputs the hourly salary and punches in when the meeting starts. Then the clock calculates the amounts wasted by the company on that meeting. You can also set the alarm to go off when a certain amount is reached.
My top management team was surprisingly committed to the initiative. They now calculate the expected financial results before each meeting (for instance, the costs the company may face if a certain problem is not resolved on time), and check the results against the actual costs of the meeting. The results are pretty neat on the long run, for those problems that keep coming up in all the meetings.
Of course, you don't need a special clock for that, you can do it in a spreadsheet just as well, but it's not nearly as much fun.
Now, to be quite honest, my work ethic is not so strong. I wasn't interested in making the company more profitable when I bought the gadgets, just wanted to make fun of a co-worker who needs hours to brief us on every aspect of her job.
@figurativeme (1089)
• Philippines
28 Sep 10
This is the first I hear of meeting clocks. You mentioned that the clock is able to calculate waster amounts. How does it determine what is a waste and what is not? But this is interesting.
@ravalarun (337)
• India
28 Sep 10
Meeting clocks i also listen first time. i metioned industries working on clock, means" every second is important, if we lost one second meas lost one opportunity, or got back one second. :)
@NoWayRo (1061)
• Romania
28 Sep 10
Well, it's the management's job to decide how productive the meeting was, in financial terms. But in most cases it's obvious, if we spend one hour discussing the purchase of napkins and paper cups, and the added costs for all participants reach thousands of dollars... case closed :) At least it's one step forward in reducing the useless time spent in meetings.
@figurativeme (1089)
• Philippines
28 Sep 10
I totally agree with you. In our workplace, meetings which should be spent on resolving problems or planning are spent on talking about people. And concerns which could be resolved in other venues are discussed in meetings which are not even in the agenda. How many times I wanted to leave if it is not in bad taste. But I wish meetings could be maximized constructively and effectively instead of doing gossips.
