Derail meetings Labor productivity offering the employees “Hangovers”: Study

Forget about Happy Hour – there are meetings that offer workers a hangover.

A recent article Published in Harvard Business Review He found that people can experience “meeting with hangover” after completing a useless meeting.

A survey found that more than 90% of the employees suffered from the “supporting meeting”, defined as “a period of diminished concentration, motivation or productivity following a bad meeting”.

“A meeting hangover is the idea that when we have a bad meeting, we simply do not leave it at the door. It sticks to us and negatively affects our productivity ”, Steven Rogelberg, professor at UNC Charlotte and author of the” Surprising Science of Meetings ” Explained CBS News.

Frustrated workers continue to reflect and reduce what went wrong – in their heads and their colleagues.

Who was not tied to their colleagues to work frustrations?

While these ventilation sessions may feel necessary to pass through the working day, this “co-guide” can continue to spread negative impacts beyond the water cooling chat.

More than a quarter (28%) of the work meetings left employees with persistent negative effects.

The most common causes of “bad” meetings were:

• Irrelevance of the topics discussed (59%)
• Lack of a clear agenda or objectives (59%)
• Poor time management (53%)
• Lack of acting results or tracking (48%)
• Uneven participation (39%) or low (38%)
• Inefficient facilitation (30%)

For those who feel a “hangover of meetings”, Rogelberg recommends that you focus your next ventilation session with your working beast on how to manage your situation and frustration – instead of complaining.

“Talk to your colleague about how to cope with the situation for the future, get their thoughts, get involved in the sense that you try to understand, taking different perspectives on what has just happened-these types of conversations increase your skills and resistance when you have a bad meeting,” said Rogelberg.