Productivity Tips

6 Ideas to Increase the Efficiency of Your Next Meeting

No matter how comfortable your boardroom furniture may be, there is nothing more likely to send you to sleep than a poorly run meeting. Meetings can turn into a highly unproductive use of your time if they are not run properly. Here are six ideas which should increase the efficiency of your meeting.

Follow the Two Pizza Rule

As CEO of Amazon (and at times the world's richest man, depending on daily share prices), Jeff Bezos knows a few things about business. He has clearly run a few meetings in his time, too.

Cheap Office Chairs Are Expensive

You have all probably seen flyers from mass market stationery or furniture stores promoting what seem to be impossibly cheap office chairs. Your natural reaction may be that you should get yourself a bargain. However, if you go ahead and buy your “cheap bargain office chair” you will probably find after a short time that it was not such a bargain after all. Cheap office chairs aren’t cheap on your wallet at all. often they can be quite expensive.

Struggling to sleep after working late?

Often people blame their unsettled sleep on worry about their work and problems. Yet, the reason could be caused by their own behaviour. Their sleeplessness is quite likely to be caused by their night-time screen habits. Humans are just not built to spend long hours staring at a screen, particularly in the dark.