TPL-36Operations

Meeting Audit Worksheet

Calendars only grow unless someone deliberately shrinks them. This audit puts every recurring meeting on trial and defaults to killing anything without a clear owner and outcome.

Inventory every recurring meeting

Owner
Decision or outcome it produces
Attendees × duration × frequency = cost per month
Last time the format was changed

For each meeting, pick one

Keep as-is
Shrink (fewer people or less time)
Move to async (doc, thread, or standup format)
Kill (default answer if there's no clear owner)

Enforce the trim

Delete the recurrences the same day. Anything ambiguous gets a 30-day sunset — if no one asks for it back, it's gone. Publish the before/after so the team sees the trade.

Common pitfalls

— Auditing without deleting. The whole point is fewer meetings.
— Letting the loudest voice save every meeting. Default is kill; save requires a case.
— Not re-running the audit. Calendars refill within six months.

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