Darren Chait discusses how to make meetings more engaging using data from Calendly’s State of Meetings 2024 research.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why 81% of respondents want more meetings

2) Three meetings to keep—and the one to stop

3) Surprising statistics on meeting etiquette

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— ABOUT DARREN —

Darren Chait is the VP of Marketing at Calendly, leading the world-class marketing organization. Previously, he was a co-founder of Hugo, the leading meeting workflow solution powering meetings for tens of thousands of customers backed by Google, Slack and Atlassian.

In a prior life, Darren was a corporate lawyer at one of Australia's leading law firms, where he attended meetings for a living – the start of his passion for meetings and the future of work.

• LinkedIn: Darren Chait

• Website: Calendly.com

• Study: The State of Meetings 2024

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Tool: Loom

• Tool: Gong

• Tool: Miro

• Book: Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, Chris Fussell

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