Daily meetings, phone calls and emails have increased about 50 percent and take up 80 percent or more of our time, according to a study published in Harvard Business Review by Rob Cross, Reb Rebele, and Adam Grant. Lori Wright, general manager of Microsoft Teams and Skype marketing, offers advice for making daily meetings less repetitive and more inclusive. Use video when you canAlthough not everyone is a fan of video meetings, it is the next best thing to everyone being in the room. Keep your meetings short“A meeting should only be as long as it needs to be,” Wright says. Wright recommends making sure you and your colleagues have at least two hours of uninterrupted time each day.

Source: Forbes June 06, 2018 18:33 UTC