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The 25 Minute Meeting: Half the Time, Double the Impact
Sharpen your focus and tighten your time frames to get more done in less time
The 25 Minute Meeting goes beyond "cut to the chase" and shows you how to take back your work day with smarter planning and more productive action. Meetings have become a de facto way of working, and as they pile up and stretch to interminable lengths, they eat up our days and sink productivity--if they are poorly planned and run. Done well, meetings are short, sharp, productive affairs that provide critical time and space for the interactions that drive business forward. This book shows you how to effectively and efficiently recover your time with a roadmap to the 25-minute meeting.
A clear framework walks you through the entire meeting process, with emphasis on timing and focus, with illustrative case studies showing how real-world meetings have transformed from painful to purposeful with a few simple changes. From purging the invite list, to shutting down irrelevant tangents and facilitating more efficient communication, this book can help you reclaim your lost hours without sacrificing collaboration.
Learn the art and science of conducting short, useful, purposeful meetings Follow a clear framework for meeting planning, preparation, and participation Assess your meetings' effectiveness using helpful checkpoints in each chapter Boost your meetings' impact with variety and visuals--without adding unnecessary time A well-run meeting is a goldmine of opportunity for Getting Things Done; it is where the diverse set of talents on your team come together into a whole of achievement--it is your most valuable commodity. It's time to leave dusty, boring, time-sucking meetings in the past and revolutionize the way we come together. The 25 Minute Meeting shows you a fresh, more productive approach to working, cooperating, collaborating, and communicating the 21st century way.
The 25 Minute Meeting goes beyond "cut to the chase" and shows you how to take back your work day with smarter planning and more productive action. Meetings have become a de facto way of working, and as they pile up and stretch to interminable lengths, they eat up our days and sink productivity--if they are poorly planned and run. Done well, meetings are short, sharp, productive affairs that provide critical time and space for the interactions that drive business forward. This book shows you how to effectively and efficiently recover your time with a roadmap to the 25-minute meeting.
A clear framework walks you through the entire meeting process, with emphasis on timing and focus, with illustrative case studies showing how real-world meetings have transformed from painful to purposeful with a few simple changes. From purging the invite list, to shutting down irrelevant tangents and facilitating more efficient communication, this book can help you reclaim your lost hours without sacrificing collaboration.
Learn the art and science of conducting short, useful, purposeful meetings Follow a clear framework for meeting planning, preparation, and participation Assess your meetings' effectiveness using helpful checkpoints in each chapter Boost your meetings' impact with variety and visuals--without adding unnecessary time A well-run meeting is a goldmine of opportunity for Getting Things Done; it is where the diverse set of talents on your team come together into a whole of achievement--it is your most valuable commodity. It's time to leave dusty, boring, time-sucking meetings in the past and revolutionize the way we come together. The 25 Minute Meeting shows you a fresh, more productive approach to working, cooperating, collaborating, and communicating the 21st century way.
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Published March 1, 2021
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March 11, 2020
A useful little book about how to have effective meetings. I think I have heard most of the advises already but following through is a different story. The most important points for me are:
* schedule for 25 minutes: in hindsight this makes sense as there is the old saying that a task stretches with the available time.
* Autopilot vs Action Hero: how can the participants be engaged better? Re-think how you present material (avoid zoning out during Powerpoint presentations) and only invite people who are invested in the topic.
* Purpose and desired outcome: are both clear? Are the action items shared after the meeting?
* Do virtual meetings like a radio show: the author gives phrases that better address the participants. You don't speak to a crowd, it's more a 1:1 communication like on radio.
Unfortunately it's not so easy to remember everything. This can be clearly seen at the end when the PPPs are followed by another PPPs and finally a third PPPs. I think one has to start small and make one change after the other.
The biggest challenge will be to get up in a meeting and to communicate politely that you are wasting your time. :-)
A nice little helper for people who have to organize and attend a lot of meetings.
* schedule for 25 minutes: in hindsight this makes sense as there is the old saying that a task stretches with the available time.
* Autopilot vs Action Hero: how can the participants be engaged better? Re-think how you present material (avoid zoning out during Powerpoint presentations) and only invite people who are invested in the topic.
* Purpose and desired outcome: are both clear? Are the action items shared after the meeting?
* Do virtual meetings like a radio show: the author gives phrases that better address the participants. You don't speak to a crowd, it's more a 1:1 communication like on radio.
Unfortunately it's not so easy to remember everything. This can be clearly seen at the end when the PPPs are followed by another PPPs and finally a third PPPs. I think one has to start small and make one change after the other.
The biggest challenge will be to get up in a meeting and to communicate politely that you are wasting your time. :-)
A nice little helper for people who have to organize and attend a lot of meetings.
January 7, 2021
I'd probably give this one 3.5. Essentially it's a call to stop faffing about in meetings and see if you can run them in 25. I really like the call to be more brief and stop wasting people's times and I'm going to give it a red-hot go in my meetings in 2021.
However, I do wonder whether there are some meetings that might have more moving parts that can't simply fit into this 25-minute bracket. Still thinking about it.
But if you hate meetings and you're responsible for running some of them, you should check it out.
However, I do wonder whether there are some meetings that might have more moving parts that can't simply fit into this 25-minute bracket. Still thinking about it.
But if you hate meetings and you're responsible for running some of them, you should check it out.
November 1, 2019
It's a definite tips to convert a painful meet up to be more purposeful. I find that the roadmap and tips isn't just meant for meetings at work but I applies it in any catch up outside of business conversation too. It's a life changing book <3
August 2, 2023
4.5 stars. Some serious food for thought & good practical tips.
December 26, 2019
Overall some useful information. I always find with these types of productivity books they provide tips and advice- some that you are already doing, some you know about but keep forgetting to do, and a few other things that are totally new. This book wasn't really a page-turner but a useful reference that I read over an extended period. Gave me an opportunity to implement some of the new stuff with reasonable success. Overall- though it won't be groundbreaking in your life, it's information applied could provide benefit.
April 14, 2019
No one teaches you how to run a meeting! You learn good and bad habits from those you observe. This book goes some way to showing a better way to minimise the negative impacts on your schedule and maximise the meetings value. Cheers!
March 22, 2019
Excellent book. Practical and direct. Delivers tips and a process, plus examples on how to do meeting "half the time, twice the value".
June 10, 2022
Have you ever been in a meeting that dragged on for so long, you started secretly checking your email so you could get some actual work done? Poorly run meetings are an exponential waste of time. With a simple framework like The 25minute Meeting shared by Donna Mcgeorge you can make meetings work more productively and efficiently.
I recently changed my default Calendly meeting from 30 minutes to 25 minutes, and I’m finding myself sticking to the agenda and saving more time. This compact and practical book is a great read for professionals who want to get more done and stop wasting time in meetings that don’t matter.
Watch my 3-minute video review here: https://youtu.be/co3b8PRcV7o
I recently changed my default Calendly meeting from 30 minutes to 25 minutes, and I’m finding myself sticking to the agenda and saving more time. This compact and practical book is a great read for professionals who want to get more done and stop wasting time in meetings that don’t matter.
Watch my 3-minute video review here: https://youtu.be/co3b8PRcV7o
May 9, 2020
Parkinson’s Law explains work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Therefore when you give people time to get stuff done, they will use whatever time you allow them. This principle has been true in my case and that’s one of the reasons why I like to schedule and give myself a deadline for any task. Having a deadline, especially shorter one is so much more impactful and I tend to not only finish the work but usually it is a quality work as well :-)
January 12, 2022
A great accompaniment to an article on HBR some time back about how to be more effective and selective with meetings. It speaks to the why, the how, and the further development. Good as a refresher for those who may already be implementing this approach.
November 16, 2020
A good book to know how to organize a 25-minute meeting, it seems a bit hard to try out in IT meetings, but there are many good principles.
March 16, 2024
A solid 3,5*. A lot of useful tips with the most important advice from the author: it’s not take it or leave it - make it work for you instead…
November 7, 2019
There are some good reminders here to be cognizant about in the workplace to run meetings efficiently. A lot of the tips here might sound like common sense but are definitely things I experience constantly that waste time and productivity that I can be guilty of myself and have been trying to remember when I'm the one running a meeting.
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