What You Need To Know's video: Effective Meetings: The bike shed effect 4:5

The bike shed effect refers to the people's tendency to give unbalanced attention to trivial issues. This can clearly have an impact on otherwise effective meetings. Based on Parkinson's law of triviality this video looks at a fictitious finance planning committee. The committee avoid the big issues and then spend a lot of time discussing the more trivial ones. Although this isn’t scientific, many people will have experienced meetings where a lot of the meeting time was spent on discussing something small, or where what’s being discussed was only relevant to a few people in the meeting. Four ways to avoid the bikeshed effect start here: 01:27 The video then goes on to show three ways that trivial items can be dealt with more effectively, therefore freeing up meeting time. Other videos in the series: Time wasted and fixes https://youtu.be/opvYFvYjtCs Time and money https://youtu.be/qgB3DtxRmug Agenda and preparation https://youtu.be/ZuMjkcX10uw Personalities and team players https://youtu.be/Iy3YrM5Z1qQ Watch all our videos here https://www.whatyouneedtoknow.co.uk/showreel Subscribe to our channel here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfTFzc4dB3aLLzYRG-btyNw?sub_confirmation=1