

This way you’ll avoid ad-hoc meetings, and all the participants will have time to duly prepare all their questions and deliverables. To add consistency to your meetings, make sure these meetings are regular and have a clear agenda. Then, go to Calendar app, click on Scheduling Assistant, select requested participants and choose the time slot where everyone would be available. This way you know that the rest of the week your team will stay 100% focused on their job with no distractions. What we’d like to share with you here is how to make sure you choose a perfect time for your meetings that wouldn’t interrupt the whole team from doing their job.įirst, select a day or two of the week, when most of the meetings will take place – say, Monday and Friday. We already gave some tips around this topic in the article on how to manage a remote team. Just think about how much time and money companies could save if they just better managed their meetings, including digital ones. In fact, 47% of the employees claim meetings and the biggest time wasters at work, and 68% of the US employees lost time due to poorly planned meetings. Turn on your camera, select Background filters, and choose how you'd like to appear: Select a custom background. Choose whether to Build a team from scratch or pull in contacts from an existing group or team.


Click Join or Create a team at the bottom of the screen. According to the productivity study by Finances Online, on average employees attend 62 meetings every month, half of which are considered time-wasting. Join a Teams meeting from the app From you Calendar, select Join on a meeting before it's started, or one that's in-progress. Open the Teams tab on the left-hand side. Here’s some curious statistics about work meetings.
