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What's Gobbling Up
Your Meeting Time?

Don’t allow interruptions to gobble up your meeting time! Closing doors, holding telephone calls, turning off beepers and cell phones so that all participants apply full attention to the meeting makes more efficient use of meeting time.

When you block interruptions, you send the message of respect to participants that they are the most important people to you at this time and that the purpose of this meeting is important.

Many of us are not even aware of how addicted we are to interruptions. Getting up for coffee, holding side conversations, and even leaving the room are interruptions that eat up time.

You may want to either be more intentional about avoiding interruptions or allow more meeting time to embrace them.

"Decide what your priorities are and
how much time you'll spend on them. 
If you don't someone else will."

--Harvey Mackay