"When I spoke at the Arabian Business Awards a few years ago, I showed a slide describing research that shows meetings literally make people dumber: a study published in Transcripts of the Royal Society of London found that meetings cause you to (during the meeting) lose IQ points. A bunch of people in the audience took photos of that slide."
"The same was true when I presented a slide describing research published in Journal of Business Research showing that not only do 90 percent of employees feel meetings are unproductive, but when the number of meetings is reduced by 40 percent employee productivity increases by 70 percent. Both findings seem easy to remember, if only because the research confirms what most people feel about meetings:"
"But what if you really wanted to remember that meetings tend to make participants dumber, and tend to negatively impact overall productivity? Or, more broadly, have a better shot of remembering things you really want to remember? Don't take photos. In a study published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, researchers evaluated the effectiveness of a variety of memory-boosting strategies: taking photos, typing notes, and writing notes by hand."
A study in Transcripts of the Royal Society of London found that meetings cause participants to lose IQ points during the meeting. Journal of Business Research reports that ninety percent of employees feel meetings are unproductive and that reducing the number of meetings by forty percent increases employee productivity by seventy percent. Slides presenting these findings prompted many audience members to photograph them. Photographs are a common memory strategy but an alternative approach may be more effective. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied evaluated the effectiveness of taking photos, typing notes, and writing notes by hand as memory-boosting strategies.
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