Before Breakfast Consolidate your meetings
May 6, 2025
Learn how to boost your productivity by strategically consolidating meetings. Discover the benefits of scheduling time-specific meetings to create uninterrupted blocks for deep work. The discussion highlights the importance of focusing meetings on key issues that truly matter, ensuring every minute is valuable. Plus, get tips on how to engage participants effectively by inviting feedback and questions to enhance meeting outcomes.
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Consolidate Meetings for Focus
- Consolidate your time-specific meetings or appointments to create large open time blocks.
- This allows for better focus on deep work and reduces interruptions between tasks.
Control Meeting Scheduling
- Exert control over your schedule by blocking open time to prevent scattered meetings.
- Politely request meeting schedulers to cluster appointments together to safeguard focus.
Do Calendar Triage
- Perform calendar triage by evaluating scheduled appointments and seeking to combine or reschedule.
- This minimizes fragmentation that undermines your ability to engage in deep work.