{"id":16837,"date":"2021-05-20T09:45:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T14:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/?p=16837"},"modified":"2021-05-20T10:18:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T15:18:16","slug":"work-meetings-running-long-this-tool-keeps-your-team-meetings-on-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/real-estate-tech\/work-meetings-running-long-this-tool-keeps-your-team-meetings-on-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Work meetings running long? This tool keeps them on time"},"content":{"rendered":"

If your work meetings are anything like mine, they pretty much always run longer than anticipated\u2014and it\u2019s usually due to the pacing of discourse more than anything else. Should you find yourself in such a position, Next Topic<\/a> might be the tool for you.<\/p>\n

Next Topic is a super lightweight app designed for the sole purpose of keeping your meetings on track. Its function is simple: You type in a meeting name, customize the time limit for the meeting, and add topics with their own limits. Once that\u2019s done, all you have to do is click the \u201cNail the meeting\u201d button at the bottom of the form; your meeting information will save, and you\u2019ll be able to click the \u201cStart\u201d button to begin counting down your first topic.<\/p>\n

The countdown itself is also incredibly lightweight, utilizing only a timer, a meter, and an indicator showing how much time for your current topic name is left. If you\u2019re ready to move on to your next topic before time runs out for your present one, you can simply click the \u201cNext\u201d button to do so; likewise, a \u201cGo back\u201d button allows you to skip back to your topic if you clicked \u201cNext\u201d before the topic was actually closed in your meeting.<\/p>\n

The Next Topic interface is also easy to share as a sidebar during your next Zoom call<\/a>, so everyone can keep an eye on it for the duration of the meeting.<\/p>\n

One potentially annoying thing that Next Topic does as a timer is solidify your meeting parameters upfront. Once you click \u201cStart\u201d, you won\u2019t be able to adjust your topic time limits at all. While it\u2019s reasonable to assume that somebody somewhere doesn\u2019t appreciate this feature, having unyielding limitations on the meeting topics is the crux of Next Topic\u2019s entire existence. It may seem inconvenient, but I guarantee that a meeting running long is moreso.<\/p>\n

Next Topic isn\u2019t a revolutionary idea, but it certainly is one genius solution to the problem of chronically long work meetings. If you\u2019re struggling to cut your calls down to a reasonable length, give Next Topic a shot\u2014it may be the answer to your meeting fatigue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(TECH NEWS) The online Zoom work meetings are causing a lot of mental drain and burnout this year, but Next Topic aims to eliminate that with firm timers to keep meetings from running over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337375,"featured_media":16838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[2090,1234,2089,2088],"class_list":["post-16837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate-tech","tag-online-tool","tag-real-estate-news","tag-work-meetings","tag-zoom-meeting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/OnlineMeeting.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16840,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16837\/revisions\/16840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}