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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nTip #1: Allow employees to decline meetings with no clear agenda<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
LiveCareer\u2019s statistics reveal that 69% of employees<\/a> consider the lack of a clear meeting agenda as one of the main causes of frustration at meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When a meeting doesn\u2019t have a plan with topics, objectives, and action items, attendees are less engaged in the actual conversation. That\u2019s because they don\u2019t understand the point of the meeting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As a result, this leads to unproductive meetings that leave everyone feeling as if they wasted valuable time<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So, if your team members notice that a meeting they\u2019ve been invited to doesn\u2019t have a clear agenda, allow them to decline the meeting<\/strong> invitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This way, they\u2019ll have more time to spend on important tasks, which will make them happier and more motivated<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To make informed decisions about which meetings to eliminate, it\u2019s best to track the time <\/strong>spent on them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Productivity coach Alexis Haselberger<\/a> says that tracking meetings, both the time involved and the efficacy, helps you determine whether the meeting is worth the time:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOne of my favorite tricks is, for a few weeks, after you go to a meeting that doesn’t feel like a good use of your time, change the color on your calendar to something you don’t use (like gray). Then, after a few weeks, you can look back and see trends about which meetings are consistently a waste of your time.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n For this purpose, Clockify<\/a> lets you track the time your team spends on tasks, and even see how much time they spend on different types of meetings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n To track meeting time in Clockify, your team members need to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Get Clockify now<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Once they stop the timer, a time entry for their meeting is automatically created and safely stored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After Clockify gathers your team\u2019s time tracking data, you can identify which meetings take up too much of your team\u2019s time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then, you can decide whether it\u2019s best to shorten or eliminate those meetings altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This way, you\u2019ll increase employee productivity<\/a> and improve your meeting culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An employee may be working on an important task that requires undivided attention. However, staying focused<\/a> can be challenging if their day is packed with meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, to help your team members engage in deep work<\/a>, encourage them to block time<\/a> for it on their calendars. In short, time blocking is a time management method where you divide your day into blocks of time dedicated to specific tasks and activities.<\/p>\n\n\n After they reserve the block of time for deep work, employees should make their calendars public so that everyone in the organization can see them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This way, they prevent others from scheduling a meeting during their focus time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Depending on the task employees want to focus on, the time block they create may be of different lengths \u2014 for example, it may be an hour or an hour and a half long. <\/p>\n\n\n\n To assess how long the time block for a certain task should be, employees can check their time tracking results in Clockify and see how much time they spent on similar tasks \u2014 thanks to the Google Calendar integration<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n Start tracking time with Clockify<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n By blocking time in their calendar, employees can work without distractions, helping them perform better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udca1 CLOCKIFY PRO TIP<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Need some more tips on how to stay focused while working? Here\u2019s a useful resource for you:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Using forms of asynchronous communication, such as emails or direct messaging, helps teams stay connected even if they\u2019re not online at the same time. This is especially important if your team works remotely or in different time zones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Async communication also helps reduce unnecessary meetings, which is something Alexis Haselberger agrees with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAnother good rule of thumb is that if the meeting is a status-update meeting or a one-way communication, it doesn’t need to be a meeting. This type of information can be shared asynchronously.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Using emails or a team communication app<\/a> for information-sharing purposes allows your team to make better use of their time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, instead of adding another meeting to their already packed schedule, you can resolve certain matters or share updates with your team via direct messaging<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n This way, your team can stay updated while having more time for their actual tasks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So, if you\u2019re not sure how to reduce meetings, replacing some of them with async communication is always a good solution. That way, you\u2019ll prevent meeting overload and<\/em> allow employees to work more efficiently wherever they\u2019re working from. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Apart from helping managers cut the number of meetings by tracking meeting time, Clockify offers a bunch of other functionalities to increase team productivity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n With the Clockify productivity tracker<\/a>, your team can:<\/p>\n\n\n\nTip #2: Track the time spent on meetings <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Tip #3: Encourage employees to block time on their calendars for important work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Tip #4: Make use of asynchronous communication<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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