The Benefit of Walking Meetings from Wendy Cole

Here is another insightful guest blog from my astute colleague Wendy Cole.

It follows on from blogs from the last 2 weeks where she wrote about Time Confetti and 7 Tips for Optimising Your Focus.

In this blog, Wendy writes about a little known and much under-utilised strategy that allows you to have a focussed meeting, get some exercise, increase your energy, boost creativity and more . . .  all at the same time!

What I like about this is that it gives you a break from the computer screen and especially from the inbox.

Hope you can see the benefits of this idea and give it a trial run in the near future.

The Benefit of Walking Meetings

What if you could increase your energy, enhance your concentration and creativity, enjoy more time outside, and increase your daily steps, all without adding anything extra to your calendar? Sound too good to be true? Walking meetings accomplish this! Let me explain a little further.

What is a walking meeting?

As Russell Clayton defined in this Harvard Business Review article “a walking meeting is simply that: a meeting that takes place during a walk instead of in an office, boardroom, or coffee shop where meetings are commonly held.”