# meetings
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12:24The Meeting Experiment: Cancelling a Week of MeetingsLeanne Elliott: Yeah. Chris Lovett: So we'd probably not waffle around for 15 minutes, or complete, you know, question the work that we would be working on as a team. And I'd be like, is this the most important thing we'EP 325 · 6 Aug 2026·interview· 12:24–17:3026:08Case study: mapping anonymous scores reveals a meeting problemRichard Clarke: Okay. Let's talk about a company that I visited, um, in October last year. Okay. Their team weren't unhappy, but they wanted to make them happier. They knew that they weren't doing enough and they didn't EP 317 · 9 Jul 2026·interview· 26:08–33:0953:40Workplace Surgery — Q3: Trapped in a culture of meeting overloadLeanne Elliott: Fabulous Al Elliott: Thank you so much. Okay, final question here. And this person, he says, I've got no time to actually think. It said, I spend 3 quarters of my day in meetings. By the time I get to actEP 302 · 19 May 2026·workplace surgery· 53:40–57:1244:22Workplace Surgery — the 'silent' meetingLeanne Elliott: Okay Al Elliott: Question number 2. Now, I chose this because it's kind of similar. But a little nuanced to question number 1. So this one is about same voices dominating every meeting and how you can fixEP 284 · 17 Mar 2026·workplace surgery· 44:22–49:300:00The family business that made meetings funLeanne Elliott: What would you think if you saw this in your workplace? So, a junior employee is having a heated argument with the CEO. Voices are raised, disagreements are flying, and the new employees are watching withEP 241 · 16 Oct 2025·interview· 0:00–4:2017:49Group decision-making without the chaosAl Elliott: So, we've covered feedback conversations, you know, the one-on-one difficult meetings, but here's where things get a little complicated. Group meetings. This is where you've got multiple people, multiple opinEP 241 · 16 Oct 2025·interview· 17:49–22:3044:56When meetings should be emails — and when they really shouldn'tAl Elliott: There's plenty of jokes and memes online about meetings, and rightly so, to be honest. However, 2 of the biggest questions around meetings generally are, when should a meeting have been an email? And 2, can wEP 241 · 16 Oct 2025·interview· 44:56–48:2025:17Back-to-back meetings and the breaking pointLeanne Elliott: But come back Al Elliott: Yeah, come back. Definitely come back because Nudge isn't as good as this. So come back. I'll cut that out. Keep that in. So going back to the young woman who was eating her luncEP 221 · 7 Aug 2025·interview· 25:17–28:0010:37When Leaders Get Nonverbal Communication WrongAl Elliott: Now, I think we've all been in those meetings where something just feels a bit off, you know, You can't put your finger on it, but you know that that leader isn't connecting with their team Leanne Elliott: YeEP 209 · 26 Jun 2025·interview· 10:37–13:3523:33If Dr. Cheryl were Minister for MeetingsAl Elliott: Let's imagine that the Prime Minister of the UK just suddenly appoints you the Minister for Meetings. And so you are allowed to set, you're allowed to set the criteria for a meeting, then it's illegal to breaEP 205 · 12 Jun 2025·interview· 23:33–25:3525:56Making time for the meetings that matterAl Elliott: So, let's just stop for a second, because I want to ask the question that our listeners are probably asking. This sounds like a lot of work. How the heck am I going to find time to do all these one-to-one meeEP 87 · 4 Apr 2024·interview· 25:56–30:2022:42Communication and the all-hands meeting structureLeanne Elliott: No founder story would be complete without finding out how they dealt with the pandemic. But even before COVID Wistia embraced remote working and included remote workers wherever they could Chris Savage: EP 68 · 8 Dec 2023·interview· 22:42–23:55
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