Company Operating Rhythm Effectiveness

Good topic. So much time is wasted due to meetings not being handled correctly. I do know a good productivity software would be helpful. My past two companies never used them, and my former company used Excel. What we measured was when the meeting started and and ended. In fact we also noted how late the meeting actually started and ended. Attendance, time planned vs. actual (meaning did we stick to the topics for the meeting or started talking about Football), action items completed.

This is a vitally important topic which currently wastes a vast amount of time and energy - often of those people whose time and energy are most valuable and limited.Meetings are essentially a process, and like all processes their effectiveness can be improved. However process improvement requires data, or we find that any gains are shortlived. As a result we have been focusing on looking at developing an effortless system for measuring meeting effectiveness since we believe this is key.