The average executive spends 23 hours each week in meetings, according to the Wharton Center for Applied Research at the University of Pennsylvania.

Managers report only 56 percent of meetings are productive and say a phone call or email could replace more than 25 percent of them. The financial drain to organizations is devastating.

Stan asks "how can we get the most out of meetings?"

Good question!

Organizations employ state-of-the-art process improvement methods to streamline activities and accomplish more with less. Curiously, meeting productivity has been largely overlooked in these efforts.

If unproductive meetings are causing frustration and set-backs, the time has come for some process improvement.

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