“Stretch Meetings” are extended term cloud based meetings that take the place of time-draining internal work meetings and conference calls.
The typical American professional attends over 60 meetings per month (Source: Meetings in America: A study of trends, costs and attitudes toward business travel, teleconferencing, and their impact on productivity (Greenwich, CT: INFOCOMM, 1998)
Approximately 50% of meeting time is wasted (Source: Meetings in America: A study of trends, costs and attitudes toward business travel, teleconferencing, and their impact on productivity (Greenwich, CT: INFOCOMM, 1998)
39% of people attending meetings doze off during the meeting (source: CBS News).
So how do Defer Stretch Meetings fix the above:
Meeting time is scheduled for days, weeks or even months for open meeting.
NOT scheduling days, weeks, or months OUT so all attendees can attend.
Allows attendees to jump in and out of meetings as time allows
NOT scheduling captives for 1 hour sessions
Invest 5 minutes for your 5 minutes of input
NOT Investing 1 hour for 5 minutes of input
Allows more people to truly PARTICIPATE in meetings and add VALUE
NOT have a single speaker for 59 minutes and talk over each other for the remaining minute.
Allows language barriers to be broken down.
NOT speaking too fast, or too slow for multi language calls.
Allows meetings to easily cross time zones.
NOT getting up at 4am, or working until 10pm for a meeting with Japan.
Add value to 4 or 5 meetings in the first 20 minutes of each day with notices of new content.
NOT navigate your way through each day trying to fit work in between each scheduled meeting you have.
Have every question, answer, shared file and attendee list saved for future review long after meeting is complete.
NOT assign someone to take minutes to the meeting and get only half of the points that were brought up.
Everything for the meeting in one place.
NOT scrounging through emails, online cloud folders, local drives, and hand written notes.
Provide real time feedback through the meeting term to the host and other attendees.
NOT sit silent during a meeting thinking “it will all be over soon.”
The typical American professional attends over 60 meetings per month (Source: Meetings in America: A study of trends, costs and attitudes toward business travel, teleconferencing, and their impact on productivity (Greenwich, CT: INFOCOMM, 1998)
Approximately 50% of meeting time is wasted (Source: Meetings in America: A study of trends, costs and attitudes toward business travel, teleconferencing, and their impact on productivity (Greenwich, CT: INFOCOMM, 1998)
39% of people attending meetings doze off during the meeting (source: CBS News).
So how do Defer Stretch Meetings fix the above:
Meeting time is scheduled for days, weeks or even months for open meeting.
NOT scheduling days, weeks, or months OUT so all attendees can attend.
Allows attendees to jump in and out of meetings as time allows
NOT scheduling captives for 1 hour sessions
Invest 5 minutes for your 5 minutes of input
NOT Investing 1 hour for 5 minutes of input
Allows more people to truly PARTICIPATE in meetings and add VALUE
NOT have a single speaker for 59 minutes and talk over each other for the remaining minute.
Allows language barriers to be broken down.
NOT speaking too fast, or too slow for multi language calls.
Allows meetings to easily cross time zones.
NOT getting up at 4am, or working until 10pm for a meeting with Japan.
Add value to 4 or 5 meetings in the first 20 minutes of each day with notices of new content.
NOT navigate your way through each day trying to fit work in between each scheduled meeting you have.
Have every question, answer, shared file and attendee list saved for future review long after meeting is complete.
NOT assign someone to take minutes to the meeting and get only half of the points that were brought up.
Everything for the meeting in one place.
NOT scrounging through emails, online cloud folders, local drives, and hand written notes.
Provide real time feedback through the meeting term to the host and other attendees.
NOT sit silent during a meeting thinking “it will all be over soon.”
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