Anne-Marie Chaker

speaker

224 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2023 last heard Feb 2024

Anne-Marie Chaker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

No recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

WSJ Your Money Briefing · Is 15 the New 30? How to Run a Productive 15-Minute Meeting · 17 Oct 2023 podcast

When we're nervous, we hem and haw, we overthink.

And then when something is scheduled for 30, people on the other end feel like they're going to need to take up all that time.

So there's just a lot of time wasted anyway.

One way I like to do these is to stack them a bit.

The worst for me is when I have like blocks of 15 minutes between meetings because I feel like I can't get enough time.

done anyway to really focus and I'm only just getting started on a project or writing or whatever.

So if you can stack them or schedule them in a way that makes sense to you, maybe three 15-minute meetings back to back and just like a five-minute drink of water or breather in between those, it can be very effective.

One thing that I've heard people do is offer a few bullets ahead of time.

Here's what we're going to talk about.

And here's some reading material so that people come to the conversation more prepared.

I even talked to one boss who said that

He found that a lot of people don't read the reading material anyway.

So they just take the first five minutes of the meeting to speed read.

There's all kinds of ways you can do it, but just presenting up front that this is a meeting that's going to be focused on this, that, and the other, and we only have 15 minutes and let's get right to it, I think really changes the whole tenor of the thing.

Anything that helps people focus is a good thing.

And maybe because the meetings are tighter, then we just have more time to do actual work.

And focus work is very important and something that a lot of people are talking about right now.

And having more meetings reduces the amount of time we actually can sit and think and write, which is very valuable.

So yes, it could be a really good solution and something that more people can look towards.

It's really effective.

Showing 121–140 of 224 · page 7 of 12