Red flag: the meeting has more than 10 attendees (maybe even fewer).
Decline.
Meetings with more than 10 attendees usually means only one - maybe 2-3 - people are talking.
This can be recorded and shared out.
Don’t make me sit through a monologue at 1x, with most of the content not relevant to me.
We don’t need all-hands meetings. Have the execs get together if they must, record the presentation, and send out the recording.
Viewing should be optional, since likely only middle management cares about it anyway.
They can, then, disseminate the relevant info to their teams, if there’s anything that’s relevant (the relevant bits can likely be summed up in 60 seconds).
Meetings only make sense if all parties invited will be talking, or all the information shared is highly relevant to them.
Otherwise, there are better forms of communicating the information other than a synchronous meeting.
Decline.
Meetings with more than 10 attendees usually means only one - maybe 2-3 - people are talking.
This can be recorded and shared out.
Don’t make me sit through a monologue at 1x, with most of the content not relevant to me.
We don’t need all-hands meetings. Have the execs get together if they must, record the presentation, and send out the recording.
Viewing should be optional, since likely only middle management cares about it anyway.
They can, then, disseminate the relevant info to their teams, if there’s anything that’s relevant (the relevant bits can likely be summed up in 60 seconds).
Meetings only make sense if all parties invited will be talking, or all the information shared is highly relevant to them.
Otherwise, there are better forms of communicating the information other than a synchronous meeting.