eetings are generally an enormous waste of time. Unfortunately for most people they’re totally unavoidable – corporate environments, public and private sectors and schools are the biggest culprits of time wasting meetings. I loathe them. One of the main reasons why I work for myself is so I never have to have meetings unless I want to. This week I chatted to lots of corporate types and I found out that most of them actually like and require meetings but they have a criteria for meetings before they’ll accept them. So not everyone thinks meetings are a waste of time.
This was quite surprising to me because back when I worked full time in an office environment, meetings were always called by people who didn’t know what they were doing, didn’t have enough work to do and wanted to feel productive. This was ten years ago and pre-GFC when no one had to justify their existence to stay employed so I was delighted to hear that the attitude towards meetings has change and rigorous structures have been put in place.
This week Kelly and I are talking about meetings – how to avoid them and how to fix them – in this week’s episode of Straight and Curly. You can listen to it on your mobile or listen to it right here.
Stacey and I are back this week on Sweet Teen Club talking about Buffy The Movie. Neither of us watched the TV show. We shall hang our heads in 90s shame. But we both quite loved the movie so let’s talk about that instead.
Also I did a presentation last week about podcasting and went through some of my stats for the shows and did you know that 17% of people who listen to Straight and Curly do it from their desktops? I love that. I just assumed everyone was using their smartphones. I love the idea of people working and listening to my podcasts from their computers. It tickles me pink it does!
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