1014: How to Make Meetings Better for Everyone with Calendly’s Darren Chait

Darren Chait discusses how to make meetings more engaging using data from Calendly’s State of Meetings 2024 research.  — YOU’LL LEARN —  1) Why 81% of respondents want more meetings  2) Three meetings to keep—and the one to stop  3) Surprising statistics on meeting etiquette  Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep1014 for clickable versions of the links below.  — ABOUT DARREN —  Darren Chait is the VP of Marketing at Calendly, leading the world-class marketing organization. Previously, he was a co-founder of Hugo, the leading meeting workflow solution powering meetings for tens of thousands of customers backed by Google, Slack and Atlassian. In a prior life, Darren was a corporate lawyer at one of Australia's leading law firms, where he attended meetings for a living – the start of his passion for meetings and the future of work. • LinkedIn: Darren Chait  • Website: Calendly.com  • Study: The State of Meetings 2024  — RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —  • Tool: Loom  • Tool: Gong  • Tool: Miro  • Book: Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, Chris Fussell — THANK YOU SPONSORS! —  • Lingoda. Visit try.lingoda.com/Awesome and save up to 20% off your sign up fee! Plus, get an extra $25 off with the code AWESOME  • LinkedIn Jobs. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/beawesome • Jenni Kayne. Use the code AWESOME15 to get 15% off your order! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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