Meetings, Meetings and More Meetings: How to Make Them Worth the Time by Adam Kene and Kate Waterfall Hill

How much are your meetings actually costing your business?In Episode 3 of Season 2 of Behind the SME, Adam Kene and Kate Waterfall Hill tackle something almost every growing business struggles with: meetings, meetings and more meetings.Meetings themselves are not the problem. The problem is meetings without a clear purpose, the wrong people in the room, no preparation and no meaningful outcome.And the cost adds up quickly.A weekly 45-minute meeting with eight people uses 312 working hours over a year. At a loaded employment cost of £50 an hour, that is £15,600.If that meeting appeared on your P&L as a £15,600 recurring expense, would you renew it?Adam and Kate explore why meeting overload happens, what it can reveal about the wider business, and how leaders can protect more time for focused work without losing the collaboration that good meetings provide.You will learn:Why meetings should be treated as an operational costHow excessive meetings disrupt deep work and create task switchingWhy more attendees do not necessarily create more buy-inHow meetings can mask unclear ownership, weak reporting and missing systemsWhen an update should become a dashboard, document, video or message insteadThe five questions to ask before putting a meeting in the diaryHow clearer agendas, attendees and outcomes can make meetings more usefulWhy recurring meetings should have an expiry date rather than running indefinitelyThis episode is for founders, managers and leadership teams who want to spend less time talking about work and more time doing the work that moves the business forward.🎙️ Behind the SME is hosted by Adam Kene, CEO of Kene. In Season 2, Adam is joined by leadership coach and author Kate Waterfall Hill to explore the leadership challenges behind growing businesses.Like what you hear? We’d love to know!📩 Contact us: hello@behindthesme.co.uk🔗 Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/behind-the-sme🌐 More platforms: https://linktr.ee/behindthesme Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.