Before you send the invite
What the meeting costs
Salary is not the cost. A rough fully loaded rate is enough — the point is the order of magnitude, said before the invite goes out.
Team practice
The room
Make the time cost of a meeting visible, then look at the focus time left in the team's week. Use the estimate to discuss a more deliberate calendar.
What you leave with An estimate of meeting cost and available focus time.
After the calendar is honest
What is left to make something
A five-day week minus lunch, slack and the odd interruption is closer to 30 hours than 40. Pretending otherwise is how focus disappears on paper last.
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