Susan DrummCEO Advisor & Executive Coach | Leadership Change Agent

Stop Scheduling Meetings That Burn Out Your Team #shorts

14 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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A brief YouTube #short by Susan Drumm advising managers on fair meeting scheduling across time zones. The clip recommends alternating meeting times (e.g., avoid always holding 9am ET/6am PT or 5pm PT calls) so the same team members aren’t consistently inconvenienced, and notes this is harder with globally distributed teams but alternating helps share the burden.

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Number three if your team is spread across time zones, alternate meeting schedule times. So if your team is split between New York and LA, your West Coasters don't really appreciate the 9am East coast meeting times. And likely I'm sure the New Yorkers could do without the calls at 5pm Pacific on a Friday night. And that's even harder if you have team members all over the world. It's not always possible to schedule meetings at the perfect time for everyone, but we can at least alternate. So make sure that your meetings aren't scheduled at a time that consists consistently inconveniences the same team members.