1014: How to Make Meetings Better for Everyone with Calendly’s Darren Chait

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

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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