Define: "Clubbing (the meetings)" in Business
High risk of unnecessary meetings
"Hard-stop the meeting at the original scheduled end time. 'I have a hard stopHard stopA polite way to say 'I have another meeting where they are also wasting my time.'' is your best friend."
Combining multiple separate meeting agendas into a single block of time for purported efficiency.
What does "Clubbing (the meetings)" actually mean?
"Taking three terrible 30-minute meetings and merging them into a soul-crushing two-hour hostage situation."
"By clubbing these updates together, we hope to give everyone some time back in their week."
"Since we're all here, let's just try clubbing the marketing update with the Q4 budget review."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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