A senior marketing professional shares six tips to recover from a ‘bad’ workplace meeting

A lot has been written about how we can make meetings in our workplaces more effective. Fewer and shorter meetings, clearer agendas, more focused discussions, no long-winded presentations – all these desirable actions are now well known. Happily, they are even being adopted by some wise managers. But at the end of the day, the harsh truth is that we still continue to constantly be in many bad meetings which leave us in a funk. And unless we find good, practical ways of quickly recovering from such useless sessions, our entire day goes for a toss.

Listen to what Joseph Allen, a professor of occupational and environmental health at the University of Utah, has to say. He says that when an employee sits through an ineffective meeting, their brain power is essentially being drained away. From experience, I can testify that this melting of the brain then leads to a sharp decline in productivity. This happens because the mind winds down to a standstill, frustrated and even numbed by the terrible meeting that has just concluded. For all of us who have felt this mind-draining sensation after meetings, what we need is a toolkit for quick recovery. Here is a beginner’s guide...

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