5 tips for dealing with meeting overload | Cindy Solomon

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🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Could this meeting have been an email? The phenomenon of "calendar creep," where meetings completely take over your work days, is wasting time, energy and productivity -- but you can take back control. Leadership expert Cindy Solomon shares her five tips for clearing up your schedule and getting your calendar to work for you, not against you.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:11.0	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:14.0	Today an antidote to calendar creep, the idea that we aren't in control of our own time.
0:20.9	I've been there.
0:22.4	In leadership expert Cindy Solomon's talk from our series The Way We Work, she shares
0:27.5	ways to make your calendar actually work for you and not the other way around.
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1:16.0	Have you ever reached the end of what feels like a grueling work day only to realize you
1:20.2	didn't actually accomplish anything?
1:22.4	When it was just meeting after meeting after meeting after meeting after meeting after meeting.
1:31.1	As a recovering corporate executive I know we all feel like our time is in our own.
1:35.6	Like other people are controlling our calendars and we're simply reacting to their whims.
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