Five Tips To Prevent Meeting Fatigue

(From SHRM) Meetings are on the rise and so, too, is meeting fatigue. According to new research from Microsoft, people are in 3 times more Microsoft Teams meetings and calls per week at work, a 192% increase since 2020. Productivity expert Viktor Grekov offered the following tips to making sure meetings remain productive, relevant and time-bound:

• Encourage the use of collaborative communication tools, like Microsoft Teams, to enable team members to communicate independently.
  
• Set aside time for troubleshooting.
• Train staff how to plan and run a meeting
• Regularly audit how frequently meetings are held and how many occur back-to-back
• Allow remote attendees to be off camera if they choose.