As I’ve transitioned back into an IC role,...

As I’ve transitioned back into an IC role, my schedule’s continued to be very meeting-heavy. It’s been part just catching up with folks I haven’t talked to in a while and part starting the work needed for my new team. A simple trick that’s helped me with this heavy meeting schedule: I schedule all my meetings to start five minutes past the hour or half-hour. " "" "While this shortens all 30min meetings to 25min, the five minutes are crucial to stand up, use the restroom, get some water, etc. Especially when my calendar has 6 or 7 back-to-back 30-minute calls, those 5-minute breaks provide a much-needed break throughout that block of meetings. " "" "I’m not sure if every calendering tool makes this easy, but Outlook does — there’s a setting to start meetings five past automatically! #bendevtip

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