Cut 50% of your meetings, transform your culture, improve collaboration and accelerate decisions. This is the claim of authors Kevan Hall and Alan Hall in their 2017 book ‘Kill Bad Meetings’.
Frustrated at inefficient, ineffective and unnecessary meetings, the authors draw on their considerable business experience and research to show how meetings, well run, can be good for business. More than just providing training, this book looks to systematically change the meeting culture of organisations.
I found the book to be a very useful tool in examining meetings, and providing guidance to organisations on saving time and money. The structure is built on why better meetings assist your business, then turns to the unnecessary meetings, topics and participant of meeting. For example, they note research that indicates 10% – 20% of participants at meetings should not be there at all. The third section gives excellent advice for designing better meetings, and is followed by how to improve meeting flow. The book concludes with a section on how to embed the changes and overcome resistance to change.
Peppered through are practical tips and action steps to ensure the ideas can become a reality. This is a really well organized book that is well written, easy to read and very helpful. Highly recommended
Warrick Long, Lecturer, Avondale Business School.