Meetings, Meetings and More Meetings: How to Make Them Worth the Time by Adam Kene and Kate Waterfall Hill

Behind the SME · Sep 17, 2026 · 35m

How much are your meetings actually costing your business?

In Episode 3 of Season 2 of Behind the SME, Adam Kene and Kate Waterfall Hill tackle something almost every growing business struggles with: meetings, meetings and more meetings.

Meetings themselves are not the problem. The problem is meetings without a clear purpose, the wrong people in the room, no preparation and no meaningful outcome.

And the cost adds up quickly.

A weekly 45-minute meeting with eight people uses 312 working hours over a year. At a loaded employment cost of £50 an hour, that is £15,600.

If that meeting appeared on…