Don’t allow anyone to sit-down at your next meeting.
An experiment at the University of Missouri compared decision making in 56 groups where the members stood during short meetings to 55 groups where members sat during meetings.
Where people stood they took 34 percent less time to make the assigned decision, and there were no significant differences in the quality of the decision. This seems to be a trivial item but wait a minute.
How many employees is in your firm? How many short (up to 30min) meetings do you have? Also there may be meetings that are taking longer than this but if the people attending were made to stand would be a short quality meeting. Sometimes it is necessary to sit down but often this is not the case.
If your firm has say 5000 employees and if during a year each employee replaced a sit down meeting with a standing meeting then this would mean 35,000 minutes – just over 583 hours per year.
So be careful before you sit down at a short meeting – ask the question “can we stand and get on to other tasks?”
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