{"id":1471,"date":"2008-03-14T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/office-meeting-heresy\/"},"modified":"2008-03-14T10:33:09","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T15:33:09","slug":"office-meeting-heresy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/office-meeting-heresy\/","title":{"rendered":"Office Meeting Heresy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I give you CareerJournal.com&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB120519462810425677.html?mod=\">Another Meeting? Good. Another Chance To Hear Myself Talk<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. McKay&#8217;s confession helps answer the question of why, if everybody hates meetings so much, do we have so many of them?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great question.\u00a0 The gentleman referenced in the article misses meetings in his new company!\u00a0 My word, I cannot relate to that sentiment.\u00a0 Here is the stunning research results:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Steven Rogelberg, a professor of industrial organizational psychology at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and a group of colleagues found that among people surveyed about their last meeting, 69% rated them at least &#8220;good,&#8221; while only 16% rated them &#8220;poor&#8221; or worse. And although 50% said they complained about meetings, more than 60% of these complainers admitted that they either &#8220;don&#8217;t mind them that much&#8221; or &#8220;enjoy them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked what their ideal work day would look like, two-thirds of respondents said it would include at least one or more meetings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I just picked myself up from the floor.\u00a0 I authentically dislike meetings so I am disappointed in these &#8220;fakers.&#8221;\u00a0 Salespeople tend to operate outside of the 4 walls of the company so meetings are costly in terms of goal time and selling opportunities.\u00a0 I suspect the majority of people who enjoy meetings are <em>not<\/em> in sales positions, but it is just a guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I give you CareerJournal.com&#8217;s Another Meeting? Good. Another Chance To Hear Myself Talk: Mr. McKay&#8217;s confession helps answer the question of why, if everybody hates meetings so much, do we have so many of them? Great question.\u00a0 The gentleman referenced in the article misses meetings in his new company!\u00a0 My word, I cannot relate to that sentiment.\u00a0 Here is the stunning research results: Steven Rogelberg, a professor of industrial organizational psychology at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and a group of colleagues found that among people surveyed about their last meeting, 69% rated them at least &#8220;good,&#8221; while only 16% rated them &#8220;poor&#8221; or worse. And although 50% said&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/office-meeting-heresy\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[444,1756,445],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-team-management","category-trends","tag-office-meeting","tag-team-management","tag-team-meeting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-nJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2291,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/03\/the-two-pizza-rule\/","url_meta":{"origin":1471,"position":0},"title":"The Two-Pizza Rule","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"March 10, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Full confession \u2013 I despise meetings.\u00a0 I have spent much of my career sitting through insanely inefficient meetings \u2013 I prefer to call them \u201cboil the ocean\u201d meetings.\u00a0 The topics in these meetings usually lacked clarity and focus so the meeting would drift\u2026badly.\u00a0 Of course, when your boss is sitting\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Communication&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Communication","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/communication\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":930,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/annoying-aspects-of-meetings\/","url_meta":{"origin":1471,"position":1},"title":"Annoying Aspects Of Meetings","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"May 17, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Inc.com offers a quick article about annoying meeting items - New Study Reveals Why Meetings Are So Unbearable.\u00a0 From the article: Of 1,037 full- or part-time workers polled, 27 percent ranked disorganized, rambling meetings as their top frustration, followed by 17 percent who said they were annoyed by peers who\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Communication&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Communication","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/communication\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":455,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/from-windbags-to-bullies\/","url_meta":{"origin":1471,"position":2},"title":"From Windbags to Bullies","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"November 22, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"It sure feels like a holiday already, but we at The Hire Sense march on today. 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