Advice needed for meeting tomorrow!

[barkbarkwoof]

I've been on my current role for six months and on the whole I like it.

However there is one aspect of my job that I really dislike.

I don't want to be too specific in case anyone I work with reads this!

But let's just say that one day a week I have to spend all day arranging meetings.

This day feels like a waste of time to me because people could schedule there own meetings and make a better job of it and I could be doing something I'm actually good at that adds value.

However when I was hired for this job this was a significant part of the role and I was happy with that until I had to do it, and have seen how disorganised the company is in this respect.

Scheduling these meetings is a NIGHTMARE every week and everyone ends up unhappy with my output and i dislike doing it intensely.

After months of being upset over this Ive scheduled a meeting. Its tomorrow and I have no idea how to put in to words how I feel short of saying I hate it. Which wing what I'm hoping to be by to the table!

Any advice greatly appreciated.

Scheduling meetings is just an example and not the actual issue!

So many typos - apologies!

You’re six months into a job where you were hired to spend 20% of your time doing an activity so other people wouldn’t have to do it, and now you’re saying you don’t want to.

Honestly, it’s going to be a hard sell.

Could you ask if you can take a few weeks to review the “meeting booking” process (while still doing the activity) to see if you can create something more efficient?

I know 😩

I'd been hoping they might say oh don't worry someone else will do it but that's pretty unlikely!

I think you're right that making helpful suggestions to make it easier for me might be the best bet

I'd be looking for some software that you could use and try suggesting that would be a better option for the company as it would free up your time to do x other thing. Frame it as benefitting the company if you can.

Say you want everyone who's meetings your arrange to give you a rough idea of what they prefer to avoid you having to reshuffle afterwords. Such as minting or afternoon meetings and you will try to arrange that

Or if there's the same kind of meetings all the time such as team meeting, future plans meetings, money meetings, senior meetings. Suggest something like all senior meetings to be held at 2 on on a Friday, all general team meetings to be Monday morning at 9 (hard to suggest without knowing your details of your workplace)

Ask is there any days that no meetings should be scheduled

Can you have a rough idea of how long different types of meetings last so you can schedule them better

Trying to think of ideas that you could go in with rather than just saying you don't want to do that part of your job anymore incase that doesn't go down well

Id pitch it as an improvement plan of how it isn't achieving what it's meant to and another system needs to be looked at and can you spend the next six weeks analysing this to produce options.

If you just say you don't like it, you'll be (quite rightly) shot down