{"id":21279,"date":"2018-10-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/global2020prd.wpengine.com\/insights\/kill-bad-meetings-halve-your-meetings-to-transform-your-culture-improve-collaboration-and-accelerate-decisions\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:58:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:58:56","slug":"kill-bad-meetings-halve-your-meetings-to-transform-your-culture-improve-collaboration-and-accelerate-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/insights\/kill-bad-meetings-halve-your-meetings-to-transform-your-culture-improve-collaboration-and-accelerate-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Kill Bad Meetings: Halve your meetings to transform your culture, improve collaboration and accelerate decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meetings are essential to collaboration and decision making, but they are often irrelevant, time consuming and badly run. People tell us they spend an average of 2 days per week in meetings and 50% of it is wasted \u2013 in our book Kill Bad meetings we show you how to reduce the number and improve the quality of your meetings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In decades working in complex matrix, virtual and global organisations we found that time and again the issue comes back to meetings. Meetings are where collaboration happens, where decisions get made and they consume a large proportion of the working time of managerial and professional people. If we can fix our meetings culture we can improve collaboration, decision-making and engagement and save a lot of time and money.<\/p>\n

Traditional meetings training has focused on the facilitation and chairing of face-to-face meetings and whilst this is important it misses some critical facts<\/p>\n

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  1. half of meetings don\u2019t need to happen at all, if we don\u2019t kill bad meetings first then all we are doing with facilitation training is making people more effective at organising unnecessary work<\/li>\n
  2. many meetings are virtual \u2013 and the skills of designing and running effective virtual meetings are quite different<\/li>\n
  3. meetings are a reflection of our corporate culture. Many organisations have tried to change their meetings culture through focus on facilitation and quickly found that, despite initial improvements, the number and quality of meeting soon springs back to what it was before. If we don\u2019t resolve the underlying corporate cultural issues we can\u2019t make a sustained change the way we meet.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    After extensive client work in this area we have written a new book and training program Kill Bad Meetings<\/strong>: Cut 50% of your meetings to transform your culture, improve collaboration and accelerate decisions.<\/p>\n

    This book and effective meetings training<\/a> will help you win back that wasted day a week by cutting out the half of face to face and virtual meetings that do not need to happen and radically improving the ones that remain.<\/p>\n

    The two authors, one our experienced CEO and consultant to major multinationals, the other a millennial line manager working within one of the world\u2019s largest companies, find common ground, and occasional disagreements on creating new ways of meeting both face to face and through technology that are far more engaging and effective for everyone.<\/p>\n

    The book and training focuses on three main areas<\/p>\n