For better meetings, get your briefs on.

Great meetings don’t happen by accident. And since the pandemic hit, we’ve been sitting in a lot of them. Whether you are taking your meetings in an office, at your kitchen table, or somewhere in between — there are several cornerstones to highly productive meeting time:

• The right preparation
• The right people
• The right content
• Could this have been an email? — the average professional spent how many hours in meetings each week during the fall of 2021? (answer below)