This gets at the root question of the types of meetings that are scheduled, their purpose and organization. I have long felt the same way as I am sure many auditors have that excessive meetings or meetings that are poorly planned or organized are a huge time waster in any organization. I have kept track of some "non-productive" meetings based on staff in attendance and the time but management was not really interested in the results of my efforts.
It would be very easy to set up a spreadsheet in Excel that would track meeting time and associated costs but you should find out whether management has any interest in the results.
My 2 cents!
Jim
At 09:12 AM 12/11/2002 -0500, Mahoney, James E wrote:
I know we have all faced the problem of getting tied up in meeting after meeting which have not always proved to be productive. One of the ways to keep people on track is to let them know that time spent in meetings is costing real money as well as the time of everyone involved.
What I would like to is find some basic software that will keep a running total of the meeting cost in real time. The input could just be the average hourly department payroll cost times the number of people attending. I would then set up a laptop with a full screen display that says "This meeting has cost $xx.xx" in big red letters.
Is there a way I can set up something like this in Excel?
Thanks for your help
Jim Mahoney
PPL Corp.
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