{"id":3776,"date":"2026-07-30T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpblog.indigobusiness.co.uk\/?p=3776"},"modified":"2026-07-29T10:57:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:57:46","slug":"ineffective-meetings-and-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpblog.indigobusiness.co.uk\/ineffective-meetings-and-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Ineffective meetings are expensive, so is explaining decisions badly."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The problem: this is costing you real money, right now<\/h2>\n

For a 100-employee organisation, unproductive meetings cost an estimated $2.9 million a year. At 5,000 employees, that climbs to roughly $145 million (Business Insider, via Flowtrace\u2019s 2026 meeting data<\/a>). Zoom out further and the picture doesn\u2019t improve. Flowtrace\u2019s research puts the workforce-wide cost at 24 billion wasted hours a year in meetings that go nowhere (Atlassian<\/a>), and 71% of senior executives admit their own meetings are unproductive and inefficient (Harvard Business Review<\/a>). In the UK, INC estimates the annual cost of unproductive meetings alone at $58 billion (via Flowtrace<\/a>).<\/p>\n

That\u2019s only half the bill – any decisions made still have to be explained afterwards, to a client, the board or someone who wasn\u2019t in the room. Adding further cost. Grammarly and The Harris Poll estimate that poor workplace communication costs US businesses up to $1.2 trillion a year. Business leaders in their study reckon their teams lose the equivalent of almost a full working day every week to it, which works out to roughly $12,506 per employee, per year (Agility PR Solutions, reporting on Grammarly\/Harris Poll research<\/a>).<\/p>\n

So the real problem isn\u2019t one bad habit. It\u2019s two: a group that can\u2019t think together efficiently enough to reach a decision, and an individual who then can\u2019t explain that decision clearly enough for it to stick. Most businesses pay for both failures without ever identifying either.<\/p>\n

The fix: two workshops, built for each half of the problem<\/h2>\n

Most training budgets only tackle one side of this. Indigo runs two long-established, licensed workshops that were designed to solve each half on its own terms, which turns out to be exactly why they complement each other so well:<\/p>\n