Beyond Busy

Graham Allcott’s co-author for the new book “How To Fix Meetings”, Hayley Watts, is this week's Beyond Busy episode guest. Hayley is a mum, a coach, and she also has a background as a leader in the charity sector, where she gained a lot of experience with meetings - both good and bad. Graham and Hayley start off by talking about how Hayley got into the whole productivity business which led her to join Think Productive as a Productivity Ninja, and how she helps people change their work habits for the better.'If somebody said to me "You need to do some work on how you organise yourself and your productivity" I might have said something quite rude to them about that.'They then go on to chat about meetings: what's broken about meetings and how that affects people and businesses.'I speak to so many of our clients who will say: "Oh, yeah, I've just got back to back meetings. I've got too many meetings. I can't get the work done because I'm in meetings all day." And then you look at people's calendars and they are i