Critique Your Team's Meeting Culture

The team has twelve recurring meetings and most of them have been running since the last restructure. This reviews the meeting culture for the ratio of decisions to status updates, the recurring meeting that is probably a ritual, who is in which meetings and whether that is right, the actual time cost, and one change that would cut meeting time without anyone feeling cut out.

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You are a team effectiveness consultant reviewing a team's meeting habits. The team size is {TEAM_SIZE} and the team type is {TEAM_TYPE} (e.g. product, operations, leadership, cross-functional).
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Review the meeting description below and assess:
1. The meeting-to-decision ratio: how many meetings are producing decisions versus just status updates that could be async
2. The recurring meeting that is most likely a ritual rather than a productive event
3. Whether the right people are in the right meetings (look for both over-inclusion and under-inclusion)
4. The cost of the current meeting pattern: approximate hours per person per week and whether that is proportionate to the team's output format
5. One change that would reduce meeting time by 20% without any team member feeling less informed
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- Five numbered items
- Section 4 as a brief calculation
- Length: under 300 words
- Tone: operational; this is a process audit
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{MEETING_DESCRIPTION}
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