Meetings cause frustration for many participants - eg because they are poorly prepared or colleagues talk unnecessarily long. So here's 10's unconventional tips on how to best survive meetings.

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Meetings - many go in ...

Meetings - many go in, little comes out, as the saying goes. So it makes sense to think about how to spend the time most sensibly. Of the Method "Coffee manoeuvre" - announce that you're going to get coffee and then stay away for 40 minutes - is strongly discouraged at this point.

Even if of course everyone who wants to work productively knows: that Problem Getting to the root of “boring meetings” calls for a more radical approach. Even if this is not what is intended in the first place - in the end it is up to everyone to decide what they make of it.

Meeting frustration as a marketing gimmick?

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I still remember my visit to the 25hours Hotel in Zurich West. There I came across a funny one Marketing-Idea, which on closer inspection isn't all that funny: Conference documents with 10 sayings were spread out on the tables, which suggested various activities, how to more or less spend the time in a meeting useful brings around.

Some tips are obvious, others are not meant very seriously and still others are simply idiotic - so supposedly funnier to find them on the tables of a conference hotel.

10 fun tips to kill time in the meeting

Before I go to the discussion, I would like to share the list with you.

  1. This tip is an old hat: “Use the WiFi and surf extensively.”
  2. This idea, on the other hand, was creative: “Take a piece of paper and outline a business idea. Every great start-up started with a piece of paper. ”
  3. But whether this distraction makes sense? "Take a close look at the other meeting participants and start flirting wildly with another participant."
  4. After all, this is efficient: "Pretend you're listening, but plan your wardrobe for the coming week."
  5. And this? Not to be taken seriously, but could be funny: "Pretend you get an important call from Greenpeace."
  6. The most sensible tip ever: "If you shut up, the meeting will be over faster."
  7. Not a surprise here either, but at least creative: “Kritzle, very old-fashion, on one sheet.”
  8. This is sexist and apparently assumes that most of the meeting participants are men: "Dreams of the last 10 Playboy covers."
  9. You shouldn't do this here: "Send stupid SMS to randomly selected contacts on your mobile phone."
  10. However, the last tip can be useful: "Practice isometric toe exercises under the table."

The reality in many meetings

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These tips act Funny at first glance, also because one or the other piece of advice is likely to be lived reality during many meetings. After all, who hasn't thought about their clothes for the next week or played with their toes under the table or something like that?

The question that arises rather: how useful are such advices for the productivity of a meeting? And how useful are they for a conference hotel that should actually promote a place of productive meetings?

Organize meetings efficiently instead of killing time

I claim that if a meeting were properly organized, you wouldn't need such advice in the first place. Because, as we have already seen in many articles on Best of HR - Berufebilder.de® have found:

A meeting can be an extremely creative event - which, for example, can be specifically used to exchange information. And so the meeting is no longer a waste of time, but very helpful in the Teamwork.

Real productivity tips for a meeting

However, a few conditions must be met in order to make a meeting really productive: For example, the topic of the meeting, the Agenda und auch das Objective be known exactly beforehand - so that everyone knows what it is about.

And someone is needed who consistently steers the discussion in the right direction. Then a meeting is a very meaningful event. Because many meetings suffer from the fact that nobody really knows what the purpose of the meeting is. Then in the end everyone talks past each other and you have the unsatisfactory feeling that you haven't really spoken to each other.


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