{"id":905,"date":"2022-07-21T12:13:59","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T12:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/2022\/07\/21\/why-meetings-dont-work-anymore\/"},"modified":"2022-07-21T12:13:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T12:13:59","slug":"why-meetings-dont-work-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/2022\/07\/21\/why-meetings-dont-work-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Why meetings don&#8217;t work anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meetings don&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>Or, at least, the majority of staff meetings are time-wasting, productivity-killing, creativity-stifling products of wishful or delusional thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Before the pandemic and its mass movement to remote and hybrid work, meetings were already problematic.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve all seen how meetings fail.<\/p>\n<p>Most meetings in the office result from a policy to hold regular \u2014 often weekly \u2014 staff &#8220;update&#8221; meetings. Or they&#8217;re the result of procrastination. We can&#8217;t make a decision right now, so let&#8217;s schedule a meeting. Or some new initiative, problem, or idea inspires action, and scheduling a meeting feels like action.<\/p>\n<p>Once the meeting begins, eyes glaze, and some meeting participants start mentally tuning out the conversation while pretending to pay attention. (Others don&#8217;t even pretend; it&#8217;s become increasingly normal or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2021\/01\/CHI2021_RemoteMeetingMultitask_CameraReady-2.pdf\">acceptable to stay glued to a laptop or phone screen during meetings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jumpTag\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3667491\/why-meetings-dont-work-anymore.html#jump\">To read this article in full, please click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meetings don&#8217;t work. Or, at least, the majority of staff meetings are time-wasting, productivity-killing, creativity-stifling products of wishful or delusional thinking. Before the pandemic and its mass movement to remote and hybrid work, meetings were already problematic. We&#8217;ve all seen how meetings fail. Most meetings in the office result from a policy to hold regular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}