Product Management Productivity Tip #3: Master Meetings


How to Reduce Time in Meetings

Few things can boost your productivity more than cutting down on the amount of time you spend in meetings. If you want to buy yourself a few extra minutes (or hours) each day to work on important priorities this is an area to focus on.

Here are a few suggestions:

1. Make the meetings that you run be 30 minutes rather than one hour whenever possible. You would be surprised how efficient everyone becomes when they know they have to get through the agenda but have less time.

2. Insist that people take irrelevant, off-topic or non-group items offline to talk about after the meeting. Don