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Bruno Vegreville

What do you hate the most about meetings?

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I am deep diving into the core problems of meetings to find the best angle to attack them, and would like your perspective on that! Also, some related questions I’ve had in my head for a while now: - How do you capture key moments (e.g. decisions made or next actions) during the meeting? If it’s note-taking, what do you use? - Do you share a report after the meeting and if so, how do you share it? - Do you use a dedicated tool (e.g. Jira, Todoist, whatever…) to track next actions? As a PM in my current company, I take notes of most meetings myself, then consolidate minutes of meetings and share on Slack/Notion. Pretty burdensome, and the next actions end up kind of buried in my notes — Never a good way to hold people accountable 😅 Thanks a lot 🤗
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Elen Udovichenko
I am OK with meetings in general. One thing that I don't like is that I usually lose 10-15 min before and after each meeting. If I have 2 or more meetings per day, it totally ruins my productivity.
Alex Benjamignan
@elen_u I'm working on fixing this!
Elen Udovichenko
Lluís Ventura
Vidbix
Maybe you want to take a look at comeet.me. Apart from async meetings, you can take notes and assign next steps directly from your Calendar and keep track of todos, that are automatically shared!
Paul Nica
Super time consuming and a lot of times they're inefficient
Ken Savage
They’re always tooo dammmn looooong. #amirite?
Alex Benjamignan
People showing up late. Meeting ending late.
Archisman Das
- How do you capture key moments (e.g. decisions made or next actions) during the meeting? If it’s note-taking, what do you use? : Typically in an email. What it means is you end up creating a todo list on emails and have to keep digging the email to see if all items reached a closure - Do you share a report after the meeting and if so, how do you share it? - Yes. Over mail - Do you use a dedicated tool (e.g. Jira, Todoist, whatever…) to track next actions? - No. But any tool you use needs to be used by rest of the org too Key challenges that I face with meetings are 1. The context switch overhead 2. time spent getting everyone on same page and language before the actual conversation starts 3. Keeping track of all actionables
Vaibhav Namburi
@archisman_das Hey mate, would love to have you give remoteworkly.co a try given it solves word to work of all the problems you're facing - Capturing key moments through action points - Report meeting done via talking points to all people involved in meeting - Can use any tool you'd like to track action points as its synced with your account :) Also to the OP, if this is invasive, apologies - please feel free to delete it!
Mitch Gillogly
When meetings feel unproductive. Either they drag on too long, go off track, or are unceccarily scheduled
María Cristina Córdova L.
I'm a big fan of short, productive meetings. We're a 6 person remote team; we meet every day for 45 min early in the morning. Everyone has a turn to speak in which they tell the team what they're working on and if they need help from anyone on the team. We use a shared Google Sheet where everyone registers their to do's during the meeting; the sheet has activity, category, who's responsible, priority (hi, med, lo), when it's due and status (pending, in progress, completed). At the end, I do a recap of the most critical issues and off we go... The system is simple and works wonders.
Jasper Ruijs
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Here are some quick tips to prevent decision-fatigue: 1. Always do a check-in. If you don't know the group's emotional state, meetings can drag on too long, or you can get into heated debates. 2. Use the deep democracy model to keep the meeting within the 45 to 60 min range. 3. Check out with the question: 'What went well and what could we improve?'
Aryan MK
A few dominate meetings and there is no way to measure how long one does it. Also, switching between Notion and Zoom as tiring af! I started using Macro , has all the tools I need to use. Note taking sync's to Google Docs only so..
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