Life is what happen between meetings

Thank you, Lory for your participation. I like the productive and effective meetings too. ;)

Just wanted to say I can relate to the sentiment about feeling grateful to have been included in the meeting. I think maintaining a positive attitude towards meetings is important. Being included means that the organizer/participants value your input. While meetings are often viewed as a waste of time, we probably learn the most by attending meetings and listening to experts discussing the topic at hand.

Hi Rami,

Thank you for your proposal, I didn't ask the time average because after asked to some friends I've realized that

- Some of them were near suffered a stroke after count the hours/month

- Weekly working hours depends on the country, project, and sometimes type of contract, then I've preferred to skip this part in order to avoid comparison.

Anyway, thank you for your participation.

I like Rami's suggestion. There is nothing worse than watching stakeholders' eyes glaze over in a 3 hour project meeting without a break.

Thank you Anupam, I've checked the article.

You've completely missed my point Maria - Moreover, I do disagree with what you've mentioned regarding the different working hours in different countries which has nothing to do with how many hours on average people spend per meeting.

Anyways, it is your blog so you call the shots - It was just an idea.

Rami, yes, that's true, I missed the point. Instead of being thankfully for your proposal, directly I've written what I have in mind after several discussions with friends and read about the breakdowns for different jobs positions, I thought that from the perspective that I'm trying to give to the post will be no necessary. I should give maybe more details about what I wrote the second point.

Yes, that’s true is average, but in the case of a correct survey type I should ask more than one question, as what’s your role, an average of working hours, country, and using a maybe another tool and not the poll with only one choose that offer this site. But will be a simple blog entry, not an article or a white paper.

And yes, that's completely true that you've proposed an average, but sometimes when we talk about averages, we should take in mind that profiles that we are asking.

Example London School of Economics and Political Science found that the average CEO spends roughly 18 hours of a 55-hour work week in meetings. And, the Personal Productivity Challenge conducted by Microsoft in 2005 sampled over 38,000 people in 200 countries, in 29 languages about their productivity, one of the results was that people spend 5.6 hours each week in meetings; 69 percent feel meetings aren’t productive (taking into account an average from 45 working hours). From 18 to 5,6 is a huge bracket.

In this amazing community, we have CEOs, CIOS, VP’s, consultants, engineers…all of us with different roles, positions, countries with different weekly working ours…then, from my point of view I can not post something like “An average a project manager spend X hours in a meeting”, because will be not 100% a project managers if now is a CIO, or a project manager professional working by himself as a speaker, and something like “In Average a user of projectmanagement.com spend X hours in a meeting” doesn’t fit with my original idea.

I’m not trying to “bring you to my dark side”, but I hope that now I correctly explained why I missed the point. And please don't stop to disagree with me and pursuing me with your ideas.