What are some of the least value-add tasks in consulting? How can we eliminate these so we can work more manageable, efficient hours?

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Building decks

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Over communicating/show boating, multiple team meetings a week, meeting minutes, etc

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Doing back to back all-nighters and all-days (6-10 hr marathon conf call sessions daily) to get an exec deck done for client, only for them to later pull half the slides cuz they are too lazy to discuss those topics and would rather “keep the discussion at a high-level”. Kill me. I haven’t slept since last Thursday (it’s Wednesday afternoon) and we had calls all weekend too. FML. Get it together client!! 😫😴
So tired I can’t sleep- so I’m on fishbowl. Haha 😜

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Formatting, IT support, booking travel, lower level syndication, ordering food....basically my job description that’s why I get paid the least

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I have an hour long team meeting everyday first thing in the morning 🙃🙃🙃

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call people directly to try to answer questions before scheduling 30 min meetings to discuss. in addition if an email chain is like 5+ emails w deep with no resolution, talk to the person live. If you are forwarding a long email to someone, summarize what you need for them rather than saying something like “Thoughts?"

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Filing expenses

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Interestingly this question did come to mind as I watched my colleague adjusting widths of columns and aligning boxes. I’m looking for specific tasks like that. “Building decks” is too generic

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