Tired of your employees reading email during your meetings? Frustrated that your staff members waste time logging onto LinkedIn while you’re talking company strategies? You’re not alone. Laptops, smartphones and tablets are excellent tools. But this technology can play havoc in your company meetings.
Turn off the tech
Jake Knapp, has a answer for you. He’s a design partner with Google Ventures. And in a recent column for the Medium Web site, Knapp suggests that bosses forbid employees from dragging technology into meetings. Bosses who do this will likely greatly boost the actual work that gets done during these meetings.
Bye-bye tablets
Knapp proposes that employees bid farewell to their laptops, smartphones and tablets before entering a meeting. This will make sure they concentrate on what you’re announcing and not a raunchy joke forwarded to them by their best buddy.
An end time
To relieve the anxiety of your now tech-less workers, Knapp proposes setting up a timer where everyone can see it. Now, your staff know that there’s an end time for the meeting. And when that timer goes off? Keep your end of the deal; end the meeting.