The document discusses how to thoughtfully choose which meetings to attend. It suggests considering how many meetings and hours per week are spent in meetings. It also advises to think about the purpose and agenda of each meeting, and only attend those that are relevant to your role and responsibilities or where your input is specifically requested. The document emphasizes that too many meetings can reduce productivity and interfere with primary work, so it's important to control meeting attendance and prioritize the work that directly contributes to your role.

1. Meeting, meeting
16th March, 2014
Saiko Shiroto

2. Could you attend this meeting?
What do you say when somebody asks
you to attend the meeting?
“Okay, I will be there”?
Wait. Do not be hasty.
Let us think about the meetings for a bit.

3. How many times in a week?
How many meetings do you have in
week?
A few? or A lot?
I bet you have a lot like me as earlier.

4. How many hours in a week?
How many hours do you spend your
time for the meetings in a week?
10 hours? 30 hours? or more?
My worst record is 40 hours a week!

5. What you get in a meeting?
Do you remember what you got?
Something was decided? Great!
Then can you say this something will not
appear in the next meeting?
ARE YOU SURE?

6. Do you need to attend?
What is your job and responsibility?
Is that meeting what you should join?
Do you understand absolutely what that
meeting is opened for?
Or does somebody need you to be there
for advice?

7. Give it a reason
Meetings are opened for some reasons.
To make a decision.
To share some informations.
To gather up...just meet each other!
To give a lecture. etc. etc. etc.

8. Choose it carefully
More you spend time for meetings, less
you produce something.
Make it sure what is the reason of the
meeting and check the agenda.
No reason? No agenda? Stop attending.

9. Control yourself at work
Remember what is the first priority at
work.
Prevent the meetings interfere with you.
And also, do not forget you can help
other people.

10. ...although that is one of the toughest
challenge while you work for somebody
else.
Just remember you do not need to
attend all the meetings.
Good luck.
Do It Well!