How much time do you spend on booking meetings, cancelling meetings, re-booking meetings?
I just wonder as I think far too much of my time is spent on playing tetris with my calendar. Days are chopped up like Swedish "pyttipanna" (dish made of left overs, chopped in pieces) and all I really really want is a day without any meetings at all. So planning for meetings is not one of my favourite activities.
One of my biggest challenges is exactly that. Minimize the number of meetings. So right now the entries in my iCal that is just about "getting-to-know-somebody-to-see-if-there-is-a-mutual-interest-in-continuing-the-dialogue", score the lowest points. Energy draining. Still very difficult to say "No, I don't want to meet with you". Any tips on how to do that are much appreciated.
(Note: I have already tried the "It's a bit much right now, let's get in touch in a couple of weeks shall we", but somehow the meeting doesn't go away.)
I just wonder as I think far too much of my time is spent on playing tetris with my calendar. Days are chopped up like Swedish "pyttipanna" (dish made of left overs, chopped in pieces) and all I really really want is a day without any meetings at all. So planning for meetings is not one of my favourite activities.
One of my biggest challenges is exactly that. Minimize the number of meetings. So right now the entries in my iCal that is just about "getting-to-know-somebody-to-see-if-there-is-a-mutual-interest-in-continuing-the-dialogue", score the lowest points. Energy draining. Still very difficult to say "No, I don't want to meet with you". Any tips on how to do that are much appreciated.
(Note: I have already tried the "It's a bit much right now, let's get in touch in a couple of weeks shall we", but somehow the meeting doesn't go away.)
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