I’ve never seen anything like WFC when it comes to this. The reason people are busy is because they are cc’ed in a million emails. Seriously if you have to cc the entire team with rare exceptions your team su-ks.
And god- some people live to attend meetings. They never contribute and aren’t a decision maker but by god they turn up every week and stay for the whole thing. Almost as bad as the people running a meeting that covers all of their items in 25 minutes and then just keep talking to fill the whole hour. This is why we are inefficient. So much cya culture. Like god forbid the day you don’t attend the needless meeting and that’s the day something gets decided and then your boss pretends it’s the end of the world. Instead of just filling you in and moving on.
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Maybe it's just my team that hasn't had higher responsibilities delegated on a regular basis. A manager of individual contributor managers should be prepping their team to backfill them so they aren't in meetings every hour they are at the job. I agree: meetings are a royal pain, but some of them help us network/broaden our work knowledge.
A meeting trend that drives me crazy: if in a meeting that has plenty of time remaining (let's say 30 minutes) because the agenda items were slayed, it's stupid to be told to create a work session for some other magical day/timeslot when the same people are on the call NOW. (HEY, I see 9 out of 11 of us are available a week from next Tuesday from 10am until 10:25am...oh, wait...that's right, Jane is on Pacific time.)
While we're here....if you are a meeting facilitator, stop telling people, "I'll give you [x] minutes back" like you're freaking Santa. It's not a gift.
Off to my therapist's now.
Useless meetings keep the dead wood on the tree.
Totally agree! So much wasted time.
I’ve been in so many meetings that were useless and time su-ks!
Not to mention the DEV YOU classes that take hours to complete which have zero function in my role. WF is not efficient
Exactly. Wells Fargo has too many meetings, and meetings have too many people. This is how small regional banks operate - but large banks like JPM will never do this because it is very inefficient. The management only knows how to run small groups - and their methods dont scale. We hire too many leaders from small regional banks - who have no idea to to function in large bank.
You must be a gem! I’m guessing you’ve never been on PTO where others may need to cover the work and know what’s going on? You’ve never worked on a team where the managers don’t share cr-p and then you end up duplicating work because you didn’t know others were on the meeting or working the project or asking the same questions? You’ve never needed to know the info coming out of something to apply it to your work product or coverage area? This whole concept of not including the right stakeholders is exactly why we can’t get anything done around here. Our communication is terrible!!