Having too many meetings can be more of a headache than many realise. The best way for you, the team, the project or even the client to know what’s going on is to have a single source of truth.

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This might be an unpopular opinion, but I actually personally like meetings.

But it doesn't mean I like back-to-back meetings.

And I don't think anyone should have back-to-back meetings day after day because you're just going to burn out and you're not going to get anything done.

And in fact, the project's going to get all messed up because no one knows what's going on.

Meetings are great when you need to get specific, when there's urgency, I would say.

If there's an urgent issue or when you're meeting someone for the first time when you want to start working with them, obviously I'm a consultant and a coach.

So when I'm working with someone, I want to meet them and they need to meet me.

And that makes sense.

When I connect to their computer to help them, that's not a meeting.

That's work.

That shouldn't be called a meeting, whereas some people do actually call it a meeting.

So when you're working on a project, you shouldn't be having meetings all the time because sometimes people don't make it.

So all that information that goes on in that meeting gets lost.

What needs to happen is to have one central place where everyone can go to, can communicate and actually know what's going on with the meeting.

Because having those meetings away from other people, again, you're going to get completely lost as to where the project is.

So having back-to-back meetings is no good for your mental health, for your health, for your company health, And even for the project, there I say, the client as well, because the client hasn't got an idea of what's going on.

When I work with my clients, I have a central place where we communicate.

We very rarely have meetings, unless it's urgent.

If I'm working with them, as I said, I connect to them and that's not a meeting.

That's actually doing some work.

The thing called meeting never happens.

It's very rare that it happens because I don't think it actually helps.

What helps is having a single place, a single source of truth, if I dare say it, where everything is where we don't actually need to see each other because we know who we are already because we've already done the initial meeting.

And everything is in that one place.

So we don't ever need to have meetings because everyone knows where the project is.

Everyone knows what needs to be done.

What's the next step in the project?

Everyone knows what's going on.

Because there is that one place where you can go to to actually realize, okay, where we are in the project.

So having back-to-back meetings is not good for you, your health, your client, or the project, as I said.

So the best thing to do is keep it simple and just have one single source of truth, as I said.

Anyway, if you need to know any more information, there'll be a link below.

Let's have a chat.

Let's have a meeting.

Have a great day.

I'll see you in the next one.

Ciao.