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Communicate One-On-One
Once you have identified the meetings you want to excuse yourself from, schedule some private conversations with the leaders and organizers of those meetings to communicate with them that you no longer want to attend the meeting--while also explaining why.
The key is to communicate that you still value the need for the meeting and that you trust this leader to continue moving forward. You also need to make it clear that you remain available to attend the meeting in the future on an ad-hoc basis when needed.
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Group Communications
Once you have established your exit plan with the leader of the meeting, your last step is to do something similar with the other attendees.
What you want to avoid is sending the message that this meeting isn't important. You can do that by sending a clear message in your final ap...
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Mission-Critical Only
The first step you need to take is to evaluate the meetings you attend and make an objective analysis about the ones you are truly mission-critical to. Do you find yourself going to a regular update meeting? Not mission-critical. What about a meeting where you can just read the minutes to get...
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The Niceness Trap
The reason so many of us find ourselves trapped in meetings we don't want to be in comes down to the fact that we don't want to offend anyone. But there's a real cost to being nice. We wind up wasting hours of our life going to meetings we don't need to be at.
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"Everybody Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth" - Tyson. But you still need a plan.
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Eliminate
- Don’t schedule meetings: The answer to every issue or to moving ahead every project isn’t scheduling a meeting.
- Don’t attend meetings: You don’t have to accept every meeting invite you receive. Go to and be fully present at meetings where you have something to contribu...
Meetings
Ultra-productive people avoid meetings as much as humanly possible.
A meeting could drag on forever, so when you must attend a meeting, inform everyone that you want to stick to the intended schedule. This sets a clear limit that motivates everyone to be more focused and efficient.
Practice Good Email Etiquette
- Keep it short.
- Make it scannable: use short paragraphs and formatting to make sure your content is read.
- Know what you want to communicate.
- Bold the important.
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