Are You Overwhelmed by Endless, Unproductive Meetings?
Has your calendar ever looked like that?
Does any of this sound familiar:
- Are your days filled with back-to-back-to-back meetings, leaving you no time for strategic work?
- Do you feel like you're constantly firefighting, with no time to focus on what truly matters?
- Is your team disengaged and unproductive during meetings, leading to frustration and wasted time?
Endless meetings can drain your energy, disrupt your focus, and leave you feeling overwhelmed. It's a struggle for you and your team to find time for deep work when your schedule is packed with unproductive discussions.
The stress of managing a chaotic calendar can take a toll on both your professional and personal life.
It's exhausting to try to stay focused in meeting after meeting, then somehow be fully present at home, while squeezing in some time to get "real work" done late at night or super early in the morning.
But what if you could change that?
You can Bring Joy & Balance Back to Your Life
The hours and money lost in your unproductive meetings may have surprised you, but they also represent an incredible opportunity for improvement.
Imagine Your Better Workday:
- Efficient Meetings: Picture starting your day with a clear, concise schedule. Meetings are well-structured, purposeful, and productive. Each meeting ends with actionable outcomes and a sense of purpose and accomplishment.
- Reclaimed Time: With fewer unproductive meetings, you have more time for deep, meaningful work. You can focus on strategic projects, personal development, or simply have more breathing room in your day.
- Improved Team Collaboration: Your team is more engaged and effective in meetings and has more time for the deep work they love. They no longer dread meetings, because they know the time will be spent judiciously and effectively.
- Calm Presence: The chaos and stress of back-to-back-to-back meetings melt away. You're happier and calmer because you're able to strike a healthy balance between your work and personal life, now only occasionally sneaking extra work at home.
- Boosted Reputation: Word travels fast. When others learn of your meeting prowess, they want to know your secrets, and people on other teams start asking about transferring to your team.
...But You Can't Do It Alone:
Unfortunately, the very nature of your packed schedule today makes it challenging to find the time and energy to overhaul your meeting habits on your own. Who has time to research options, find alternatives, and implement changes?
That's where we come in.
"Conquer Your Calendar" does all the heavy lifting for you. We give you the support and structure you need to make real, lasting changes. Our program offers bite-size, actionable lessons that fit into your busy schedule, along with practical strategies and templates that you can implement right away.
Best of all, if you have a group of your managers take the program together, you can transform your company or department's culture together.
Not only will each manager learn the same great lessons, but we'll give you a weekly group discussion agenda so you can talk about the changes to support each other, troubleshoot, and build consensus that fits your culture.
Are you ready to change?
How Lighthouse Lessons work for even the busiest managers
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Learn from the same experts & writers that brought you the Lighthouse blog on management & leadership for over a decade, and created 8 Lighthouse Lessons courses.
You can bring change in just 15 minutes a day
We know what it's like to be a busy manager. That's why you can read and act on each lesson in 15 minutes, at a time you choose each week.
Templates make it easy to apply each lesson
To help you make the most of each lesson + save you time, we include templates you can download and use right away with your team.
You can see improvement every lesson
Every week you'll become a better leader by applying our super actionable lessons with your team. You'll be transformed by the end.
Fix meetings across your company
When you purchase the Group Edition, you receive a group discussion agenda so you and your fellow managers can meet and discuss the lessons together.
Leaders ❤️ Lighthouse Lessons
Here's what other managers have said about our programs
"Lighthouse Lessons is full of valuable and actionable lessons on how to be a better leader and manager.
It also offered our managers, across departments and teams, the opportunity to build camaraderie and grow together as a peer group.”
- Nathan Broslawsky, VP Engineering, SmugMug
“This was the perfect mixture of simplicity, insights, guidance, and expertise…at the perfect dosage (weekly).
…Lighthouse Lessons stood out as the most helpful and actionable program I’ve taken for navigating the unique challenges of being a leader.”
- Daniel Mecha Garcia, Section Lead Engineering at Roche
“You have to lead yourself before you can lead others.
Lighthouse Lessons has helped me to continue to get better every day, so I can be a better manager for my team.”
- Kevin Fye, Plant Superintendent, GLC Minerals
“For the “golden nuggets” and amazing price of this course, I would definitely recommend this program for anyone trying to grow their leadership skills.”
- Laura Knight, Technical Lead, Cymer
Will you be our next success story?
What You'll Learn in Conquer Your Calendar
How we'll help you master your meetings, lower your stress, and balance your life
Starting July 30th, you receive one bite-size, highly actionable lesson each week you can apply to your meetings right away:
- Lesson 1: Your "Armeetingeddon" - Learn when to get rid of meetings entirely
- Lesson 2: Investing in Your 1 on 1s - The meeting you always keep, and matters most
- Lesson 3: Foundational Habits Part 1 - How to ensure every meeting starts strong and stays on task
- Lesson 4: Foundational Habits Part 2 - Creating clarity and building momentum at the end of every meeting
- Lesson 5: How to Just Say No - Creating a culture where it’s okay to decline an invite
- Lesson 6: Mastering Moderation - The keys to running your meetings effectively
- Lesson 7: Power Participant - How to impact meetings when you're not running them
- Lesson 8: The Art of Delegation - How to delegate to create fewer, better meetings
- Lesson 9: Maker vs. Manager - Balancing your schedules so more deep work gets done
- Lesson 10: Asynchronous Alchemy - How to successfully make “this meeting could have been an email…” a reality
- Lesson 11: Continuous Improvement - Creating a culture of continuously improving your meetings
- Lesson 12: End of Program Q&A - You Ask, We Answer!
