Escape the meeting trap and roll up your sleeves to actually get sh!t done.
It feels great to make real progress with your team. But too often, work gets bogged down in a frustrating cycle: you’re waiting for input from collaborators stuck in back-to-back meetings, while urgent requests for your input keep piling up. Deadlines slip, blockers multiply, and high-priority work slows to a crawl.
Atlassian’s State of Teams research reveals that teams spend 50% more time in unnecessary meetings than making progress on high-priority work. The problem? These meetings are spent talking about work – sharing updates and information – instead of rolling up their sleeves and doing work together.
I lead Atlassian’s Teamwork Lab, a group of behavioral scientists that designs best practices for modern teams. Our research reveals a powerful antidote to unproductive meeting culture: eliminate information-dump meetings and use that synchronous time for real collaboration. Think: building decks, writing documents, solving problems, sharing feedback, and revising work together.
