Channel Eye has joined forces with Royston Guest, leading Business Growth Coach and CEO/Founder of Pathways Global, in our series, ‘Ask the Business Coach’.
Back-to-back meetings. Endless calendar invites. Conversations that go round in circles without clear outcomes. If your diary is packed but your progress feels slow, you’re not alone. Meeting overload has become one of the biggest productivity killers in modern business.
The reality is that more meetings don’t create better results. In many cases, they create confusion, slow decision-making, and prevent teams from doing what they were hired to do. The good news? It doesn’t have to be this way.
Three key takeaways
- Don’t sleepwalk into a meeting culture
- 90-day execution sprints
- Focus on being productive, not busy.
Episode timestamps
- [1.14] Remove meeting FOMO and instead build your high-performance week around what will make the difference.
- [2.09] Implement 90-day execution sprints with mid-quarter check-ins. At a functional level, do you need monthly or weekly check-ins with your teams?
- [3.22] Every meeting should be purposeful, intentional and outcome-focused (why doing it); make sure the right people – the decision-makers, the influencers, the people who need to know – are in the meeting (who), distribute an agenda beforehand so people are prepared and know the contribution they are expected to make (what).
- [4.55] If you want my growth hacks for meeting overload: how to break the cycle. Focus on being productive, not busy.
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