We all know that meetings can be a tremendous waste of time. However, few of us realise just how bad the problem is.
Online scheduling service Doodle just released the results of its study of 19 million meetings and interviews with more than 6,500 working professionals in the U.S., U.K., and Germany.
The results weren’t pretty.
According to Doodle’s 2019 State of Meetings report, the cost of poorly organized meetings in 2019 will reach $399 billion in the U.S. and $58 billion in the U.K.
This is almost half a trillion dollars for these two countries alone — a tremendous drag on the effectiveness of businesses.
And what are some of the consequences for employees who suffer through poorly organized meetings?
According to the report, respondents most often cited:
- poorly organised meetings mean I don’t have enough time to do the rest of my work (44 percent);
- unclear actions lead to confusion (43 percent);
- bad organisation results in a loss of focus on projects (38 percent);
- irrelevant attendees slow progress (31 percent); and
- inefficient processes weaken client/supplier relationships (26 percent).
The good news is there are things anyone can do to make their meetings better and more efficient and effective.
This course will help you to not only make your meetings in English better, cheaper and more productive, but as it is a completely transparent process, your meetings in your own language will also be better as a result!
See how much your organisation is spending / wasting on meetings with the following estimator.