# 5 tips for dealing with meeting overload

- Institution: TED
- Department: The Way We Work
- Speaker: Cindy Solomon
- Year: 2021
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Business and management
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/cindy_solomon_5_tips_for_dealing_with_meeting_overload)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Could this meeting have been an email? The phenomenon of "calendar creep," where meetings completely take over your work days, is wasting time, energy and productivity -- but you can take back control. Leadership expert Cindy Solomon shares her five tips for clearing up your schedule and getting your calendar to work for you, not against you.

## Lectures

1. [5 tips for dealing with meeting overload](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/cindy_solomon_5_tips_for_dealing_with_meeting_overload/1afb51c35bcf), 6 min (TED's player)