Question about the 20 minute chair trick that got my 3 hour meetings down to 40 minutes
Our Friday sync kept running 3 hours because everyone showed up with a laptop and no plan. I started putting 4 chairs in the room, one less than the invite list, and standing by the door till everyone else sat. Nobody said a word about it, but the meeting dropped to 40 minutes the first week and 25 the next. We went from 3 hours to under an hour just because people had to walk across the office to grab a spare chair. I also killed the snack table, which honestly did more than the chairs. Anyone else tried cutting seats or snacks to fix a meeting that drags on forever?