• If you see meandering conversations etc, curb them
• If facilitator isn't preventing tangents guide, coach and direct them
• Make it okay and comfortable to not know something. It's better to know what's relevant than what's not
• Trust your coworkers
• Model good meeting behaviour

Solutions 🧪
• Communicate directly where possible
• Prioritize & prune your time
• Negotiate attendance against what work it is costing you
• Make decisions with as few people as possible and broadcast them instead of adding attendees
• Use the agenda as a container. Pre-plan for large meeting

• Having too many work identities
• Waiting for people who aren’t required or essential to make decisions
• Cost of being informed is too high

• Meeting facilitators not keeping attendees on track
• Culture not permitting you to skip a meeting that isn't valuable to you
• Martyrdom - you don't have to be in the meetings, you choose to be in them.
• Wanting to be part of every decision, not trusting others to make the right decision.

• Not making decisions in meetings but info. Dumping
• Not used to gaining value in longer chunks of time due to short form way of consuming media
• Prioritizing immediate tasks over long-term gains
• Agendas being a list of topics to be discussed instead of outcomes wanted

Problems faced with meetings
• Feeling insecure and left out when not included
• Not declining meetings that don't add value to your work because they make you feel important
• Feeling offended when people don't attend your meeting. Not wanting to offend

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