Expert gives what seems an insane answer. Then a quick video reveals a billionaire’s views
Sadly our business only has one meeting a year. It is called Christmas Lunch.
This is clearly not enough. Most businesses have lots of meetings.
So I am going to double the frequency and introduce The Summer Piss-up.
I also plan lots of presentations and seminars and conferences and boot camps and summits.
But am I getting carried away? Research reveals that:
- 10% of workers have suffered through something so tedious they invented an excuse to leave.
- One in eight admits to having fallen asleep during a presentation.
- 50% say they saw a colleague doing so.
- A third say they started day-dreaming.
- 80% said they would get more done at their desks.
What is the answer?
Well, Christian Schwaiger, VP at Sharp Business Solutions Europe, says the key is “making sure everyone gets involved”.
Unless I am missing the plot here, this means your entire staff will be bored s***less almost all day, every day.
There is an alternative, though.
In 2008 I interviewed Peter Hargreaves of Hargreaves Lansdown to discover his business secrets.
Today he is worth a couple of billion pounds, but in those days he was still rubbing along on a few million.
Watch what he had to say.
By the way, if you’re stuck with meetings whether you like it or not, I will tell you how to make the most of them in a while.
P.S. To all those idiots who pay to have phoney automated comments up here in the fond hope of getting their rubbish products mentioned: don’t waste your money. I delete them.
