3. Set Meeting Times Properly:

 You tend to get more energy and engagement when a meeting is tight by design.  

Avoid defaulting to the hour-long meeting unless truly needed, especially given something called Parkinson law. 

 Parkinson’s law is the idea that work expands to fill whatever time is allotted to it. So, if a meeting is scheduled for one hour, magically it will take… one hour. 

But we can use this to our advantage.

Don’t hesitate to make your meetings 20 minutes, 25 minutes, 45 minutes etc. We will get it done. Dialing the meeting time back a bit also creates positive pressure. Research shows that groups operating under some level of pressure actually perform more optimally given increased focus and urgency.