Here are some useful tips on how to organize good, productive meetings:
- Kill the status meeting: check-in meetings are not efficient or relevant to everyone
- Hold one-on-one meetings sacred: more important than group meetings
- Every meeting must have a single owner
- Your calendar doesn’t make you important: you don’t have to sit at every meeting
- Calendars shouldn’t postpone decisions: you should be available for decision making meetings
- Keep meetings small: under 5 people
- Consider the opportunity cost of every meeting
- Treat other people’s calendars as a scarce resource
- Escalate, don’t undermine: just move to the decision makers
- If the meeting is over, end the meeting: if you finish early, end the meeting
- Declare calendar bankruptcy: if need be, start over with your bookings
Source: http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/17/meetings-that-dont-suck/