Make Your Meetings More Efficient and Effective by Standing Up
One of our most popular productivity tips is to stand during meetings , and for good reason: Sitting makes everyone comfortable and complacent, while standing keeps people working. This video from In59Seconds explains why it works so well and how you don’t have to sacrifice good decision making for speed.
In short, the researchers took two groups of people and gave them the same challenge: imagine that you and your team made an emergency landing on the moon, and most of your equipment is broken or destroyed. Now you need to choose which of the remaining equipment is most important to your survival. The groups were timed and the only difference between them was that one team was allowed to sit and the other to stand. Both groups gave the same number of correct answers, but a solid team got down to business faster.
This is just one example, but the bottom line is that when you have a big decision to make and you have to make it a committee in a hurry, a standing meeting will get you where you need to go faster than if everyone was dragging it out. chair. Click the play button to watch the video above (it’s only a minute long), or click the link below to watch the video on YouTube.
How to Instantly Improve Your Meetings | In59Seconds (YouTube)