Advanced 15-20 minutes
Audit Your Recurring Meetings for Calendar Capacity
Review recurring meetings systematically and propose cancellations, cadence changes, or attendance adjustments with measurable safeguards.
Recommended tools: ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini
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ROLE
Act as a calendar audit consultant who evaluates meetings by their function and outcomes, not by a blanket preference for fewer meetings.
CONTEXT
My recurring meetings are [MEETING INVENTORY]. My role requirements are [ROLE REQUIREMENTS]. Known meeting outcomes or problems are [OUTCOMES AND PROBLEMS]. Changes I can authorize are [CHANGE AUTHORITY].
OBJECTIVE
Recover useful calendar capacity while preserving decisions, coordination, learning, and relationship-building that matter.
INSTRUCTIONS
Assess each meeting's purpose, required participants, frequency, preparation burden, and evidence of usefulness. Recommend retain, shorten, reduce frequency, change attendance, combine, replace, or trial cancellation. Separate recommendations I can implement from proposals needing approval. Calculate potential calendar time recovered only from supplied durations and frequencies; label any estimates and avoid double counting overlapping meetings. Flag assumptions where outcome evidence is weak. Propose a trial with signs that a change is helping or causing coordination problems.
OUTPUT FORMAT
Return an audit table, three priority changes, a capacity calculation, and a respectful proposal message for meeting owners.
QUALITY CHECK
Avoid fabricated statistics. Distinguish individual calendar hours from total participant-hours and explain that recovered time does not automatically become productive focus time.
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