Bad onLINE meetings gives everyone who attends a bad message about our company and to ourselves. Meetings are how an organization says, 'You are a member.' So if every day we go to boring meetings full of boring people, then we can't help but think that this is a boring company. Bad meetings are a source of negative messages about our company and ourselves. And if you continue to have bad meetings, the message is reinforced over and over again. This insideous pattern will result in many members of the team simply giving up on the teams objectives and checking out of the meetings completely. Bad onLINE meetings promotes bad morale.

Bad meetings fail. They fail to get any productive work done. They fail to get any team bonding done. They fail to make us productive and competitive in the global world. And as they fail, they set us up for even more failure. Rather than rallying when things get tough, this culture of failure makes many people simply give up.

Bad onLINE meetings waste our time and tend to be too long. We should be meeting faster, but bad meetings tend to go on and on. So rather than taking less time and giving us what we need, bad onLINE meetings take up too much of what could be productive time and leave us wanting.

Bad onLINE meetings cost us money, not just in the cost of that bad meeting, but they tend to lead to additional meetings. When you add up all the costs it becomes frightening.

Think of it this way. If you're going to schedule a meeting that lasts one hour and invite 10 people to attend then it's a ten-hour meeting, not a one-hour meeting. You are trading 10 hours of productivity for one hour of meeting time. And it's probably more like 12 to 15 hours since there are mental switching costs associated with stopping what you're doing, going somewhere else to do something else, and then resuming what you were doing before.

Bad onLINE meetings frequently end with no one doing anything. Have you ever left a meeting with no one tasked to do anything? If you have, did the meeting accomplish anything? Or have you just spent the last 2 hours pretending to do something? If your meetings don't end with an action item register that is followed up on, the meeting is even less productive than your drive to and from work.

Bad onLINE meetings tend to build mistrust and cause candor to decrease. It's easy to be open and communicative when you are working on something together that is important. But if you are in a bad onLINE meeting why in the world would you put your misgivings out in the open?

Bad onLINE meetings lead to bad habits. Meetings start late, there is no agenda, people fail to do any preparation and most people aren't paying attention during the meeting are just a few of the bad habits bad onLINE meetings foster.

Bad onLINE meetings are disasters like the Titantic. It may not be evident until we hit an iceberg, but these can and do cause us to fail.