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Stumbled on a stat about meeting prep time that blew my mind
I was reading through a report from Bain & Company last week about how much time managers spend in meetings, and it said the average manager preps for like 2-3 hours per week just for status updates. That hit me hard because I run a small operations team in Denver, and I realized I was probably double that easily. I started tracking my own prep time for a few days, and sure enough, I was clocking almost 4 hours a week reading old emails and digging up project files. The kicker was that most of that info could have been shared in a simple dashboard or a quick Slack thread. It made me rethink how I even set up these recurring meetings. Has anyone else cut down on prep time by using a shared tracker or something similar?
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roberts.jordan21d ago
idk, I think the Bain stat might be a little misleading actually. I remember reading that report and it said "status update prep" specifically, but my guess is most people lump in all meeting prep together. I track my time with Toggl and when I broke it down, my actual status update prep was closer to 45 minutes a week, but I was counting time reading project docs for other meetings too.
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