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What are your meetings costing you?
A meeting that ends with no decision, no owner and no date will happen again next week. I call it death by conversation, and it’s really expensive.
Put in your own numbers and see what it costs your team in a year. The starting values are examples.
Your team’s numbers
Salary plus benefits. A round guess is fine.
Be honest. Check last week’s calendar.
0hours a year in meetings that went nowhere
$0a year in team time
0full-time people, doing nothing else
The math: people × weekly meeting hours × the share with no outcome × 48 working weeks, priced at yearly cost ÷ 2,080 hours.
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Now find out why
The number tells you what it costs. It doesn’t tell you why your meetings end without a decision. Usually it’s one of two things: nobody owns the decision, or the team has no shared objective to decide against.
Is that number bigger than you expected?
Send me a message and tell me what you found. I’m happy to tell you where I’d start.
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