The 15 minute hack (to recover hours a week)

This is a simple trick to claim back potentially hours a week. Simply create a short video using your phone or a camera introducing yourself and your background and work, and invite people you are about to meet the first time to view the video beforehand. Then when you meet shorten the meeting down to 45 minutes instead of an hour.

With existing team members or people you already know, you can also reduce by a further 15 minutes to 30 minutes for catch up sessions. When you add these savings up per person they can represent tens if not hundreds of hours saved a month across multiple attendees per organisation, and you can free up to 2 to 3 or more hours personally a week.