Why Meetings Are Eating Your Week — and How to Take It Back

Territory teams are drowning in meetings that decide nothing, drain energy, and crowd out real work. Research by organisational psychologist Steven Rogelberg suggests roughly a third of meetings are unnecessary — costing serious money in wasted time, and even more in lost focus and "meeting recovery" fatigue.

This is not a talkfest about talkfests. It's a hands-on working session where you'll audit your own calendar, kill the meetings that shouldn't exist, and rebuild the ones that should.

You'll leave with:

• A completed audit of your recurring meetings — what stays, what goes, what shrinks

• The "agenda as questions" method that makes meetings shorter and decisions faster

• Practical rules for who's invited, how long you run, and when an email beats a room

• A one-page meeting reset you can put in front of your team the next morning

Bring your actual calendar. We'll work on it live.

90-minute facilitated working session for business owners, managers and team leads. Short evidence framing (10 min), then three hands-on rounds: personal calendar audit, redesign of one recurring meeting using question-based agendas, and drafting a team "meeting reset" agreement. Participants work on their real calendars. Capped attendance to keep it interactive. Delivered by Swarmly, a Darwin-based facilitation and organisational development consultancy.