{"id":13,"date":"2011-10-12T20:39:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T20:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/?p=13"},"modified":"2011-10-12T20:39:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T20:39:42","slug":"how-many-meetings-do-you-attend-where-you-feel-like-your-wasting-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/how-many-meetings-do-you-attend-where-you-feel-like-your-wasting-time\/","title":{"rendered":"how many meetings do you attend where you feel like your wasting time??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ok &#8211; Meetings are a necessary evil..or are\u00a0really necessary for people to gather to solve problems, share information in a dynamic way and make decisions&#8230; but why do so many meetings feel like we wasted time? Why are so few people actually talking in the meeting?\u00a0Lets get better at meetings and we would all benefit.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lets be clearer on meeting objectives &#8211; have an agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Ensure the right folks attend that need to add information for problem solving\u00a0or make decisions.<\/p>\n<p>If the meeting is only to share information&#8230;why have a meeting? Can you share the information via another vehicle?<\/p>\n<p>Do you know your role in the meeting? If unclear, ask the meeting owner . If your not needed, don&#8217;t go. Use that time wisely.\u00a0 I know what I could do with an extra hour of work time&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ok &#8211; Meetings are a necessary evil..or are\u00a0really necessary for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[508],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}