Meetings Today
We look at our Outlook Calendar. There are meetings there we never knew about before we’d checked the view of the day’s obligations. A problem with Outlook meeting scheduling is that any time slot that is not blocked out entitles someone to go in and grab you for a meeting. No discussion necessary. No picking up the phone to check on your availability. If it’s not blocked out, you’re in for the meeting.
It then becomes an offense to decline the meeting. “Your Outlook said you were available. You should organize your schedule better so that if you’re not available, others will know.”
Hmmm.
A tactic might be simply to block out all of one’s time permanently on Outlook so that someone who wants to “Invite” you into a meeting would have to pick up the phone to check on your availability.
Well, the meetings are going to happen today. One boss we had recommended this:
Our strategy for this meeting is … to get out of the meeting as soon as possible.
That one stuck, and still makes sense. Where else to turn for inspiration?
Indexed, maybe. We’d like to invite Jessica Hagy to our meetings, although she may or may not have actually been in a few.
Click to access Indexed.
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Another solution, just don’t ever look at your Outlook, don’t answer the phone and keep your office door closed and locked at all times. That way you won’t even have to try to get out of meeting the instant you walk into it (though I espouse that philosophy when the occasion arises). I love the graph and can relate to it – I am so desperate to get out of meetings that my imagination soars with ideas of how to get out of them.