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Docket Clearing Meetings

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A meeting technique where teams regularly gather to go through a shared document of open items, questions, and tasks that need group discussion.

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Cal Newport

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Cal Newport recommends ✓ High confidence
"Well, docket clearing meetings, you can think of it as a collaborative office hours. Two or three times a week, your team gets together to say, 'What uh what open loops, new tasks, new ideas, things we have to tackle have come up since our last docket clearing meeting.'"
From: Overwhelmed By Work Messages? Do This Instead | Cal Newport • ▶ 11:19 • Feb 2026

Attribution: Newport recommends docket clearing meetings as a solution, providing detailed implementation advice