独家秘笈：拒绝无用会议，提高工作效率
编者按：本文作者 Alex 是求职社区The Muse 的创始人。
我是一个繁忙的工作人士，我一直在寻找一种新的时间管理方法，可以帮我评估、提高时间效率。
在最近的一次访谈节目中，Warby Parker的联合创始人兼联合 CEO DaveGilboa 分享了他的方法，这种方法既能引起我们反思，也能激励我们采取行动。
Dave Gilboa 说：“每个周末，我都会查看我的日历，回顾我这个周召开的所有会议，并将这些会议归类为 0、1 和 2。0 表示这场会议一点都没有合理使用时间，如果再遇到此类的会议，我就完全不会参加会议。2 表示这场会议充分利用了时间，我想花更多的时间参加这样的会议。1 介于 0 和 2 之间。然后我会联系我的助理，确保她知道我想参加哪种会议，哪些会议可以过滤掉，这样我以后的时间就会更加有效。”
现在，没有助理你也可以把这项工作做好——你可以把上周的行程打印出来，然后给你参加过的会议进行归类。（如果你倡导无纸化办公，你把它放在 Word 文件中即可。）
这种方法的好处是，你可以了解自己在会议上所花费的时间的价值。你的行程列表上大部分都是 2，还是 0 ？如果大部分都是 0，那么你应该问自己以下几个问题，看看自己是否可以找出一种或两种模式：
这些会议是大型会议还是小型会议？
召开会议之前，有没有发放日程安排？
会议有没有明确的领导人？
会议召开的时间是上午、下午还是晚上？
会议是不是必须亲自到场？
召开的每周的例会吗？
会议结束后，会不会发送电子邮件？
你可能会发现一些大型的会议对你来说没有用；或者如果在上午 10 点之前召开会议，你记不住任何会议内容；参加每周例会时，你和同事谈论的大都是办公室八卦。
有了这种想法，你可以调整自己的时间安排，充分利用自己的办公时间。实际上，如果你觉得之后的会议不会让你增添价值，你也可以取消。如果你对现在的模式厌倦了，你可以尝试一些新的东西，例如召开站立会议，或者简单地发送一封邮件替代面对面的会议。
在接下来的几周内，我会实践这种方法，看一下是否有效果，你也应该试一试！
本文编译自：themuse.com
A New Method to Reduce the Insane Number of Meetings You Attend
By Alex Cavoulacos
Like you, I’m a busy professional. So, I'm always on the lookout for new time management strategies to assess and improve how I spend my days.
In a recent interview with Slate, Dave Gilboa, the co-founder and co-CEO of Warby Parker, shared a great technique that serves as both a reflection tool and an impetus to future action:
And at the end of each week I try to look at my calendar and review all the meetings that I had that week and rate them zero, one, or two. Zero means it was a really bad use of time and, if I had to do it again, I wouldn’t have attended that meeting at all. Two is a great use of time—I wanna spend more of my time in those types of meetings. And one is somewhere in-between. And then I’ll connect with my assistant and make sure she understands which of those meetings I want more of and which ones could be filtered out so that hopefully over time my schedule becomes more and more productive.
Now you don't need an assistant to put this tip to work—instead, print out your schedule from the past week and rate your meetings. (Or, if you’re in a paper-less office, just throw it in a Word doc.)
The great thing about this technique is that it allows you to track the value of the time you've spent in meetings. Are you getting mostly twos or mostly zeroes? If you answered the latter, ask yourself a few questions to see if you can find a pattern (or two):
Did they tend to be big or small?
Was there an agenda sent out beforehand?
Was there a clear leader?
Did it take place in the morning, afternoon, or evening?
Was it in person?
Is this a weekly update meeting?
Was there an email that went out afterward that accomplished more?
Trends may appear where you notice that meetings with larger groups are less useful to you; or that anytime you met before 10 AM, you didn’t retain anything; or that your weekly session with a colleague only led to discussing office gossip.
With these insights, you can work on adjusting your schedule going forward and making the most of your time in the office. In fact, there may even be opportunities for you to cancel upcoming appointments going forward if you determine that they never add any value. Or, if you’re feeling really experimental, try something new—like a standup meeting or simply sending out an email in lieu of meeting face to face.
I'll be trying it for the next few weeks to see how it works—and you should, too! Tweet me at @acav with your results.
(Oh, and P.S., if you like the sound of what Gilboa said, Warby Parker’s hiring!)
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