Meeting Cost Reduction · For the CEO

Your management team meets.
But does it decide?

The hidden cost that appears on no budget.

A two-hour meeting with six management team members costs your organisation easily €2,000 before a single decision is made. Without structure, the same item is back on the agenda next week.

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€105,600average annual meeting costs for organisations with 50–150 employees

67%of meetings end without a concrete decision

2.4×the same agenda item returns before a decision is finally made

The core of the problem

What most organisations think. And what it really is

"We have a time problem."— What most directors say

It is not a time problem. It is a decision-making problem. Your organisation meets too often because every meeting without a sharp decision question, mandate check, and decision formula automatically leads to a repeat meeting.

The solution is not a new meeting tool or a tighter schedule. Your own PA or office manager can guide you toward a far tighter meeting structure. Time to devote to the client.

€640

Cost per meeting

Eight participants, one hour, average rate €80. Without a decision, you pay again next week.

2.4×

Repetition

The same agenda item appears an average of 2.4 times before a decision is made. Each repeat costs the same amount.

Decisions without structure

A decision not spoken aloud and recorded is not a decision. It is a feeling. Back on the agenda next week.

Meeting Cost Reduction

The programme that makes meetings profitable

Meeting Cost Reduction is a seven-lesson organisational programme that helps your management team make structural decisions. Not by meeting less, but by ending every meeting with a decision, an owner, and a date.

Foundation

Goal, decision question, and mandate. No meeting without the three.

Decision question

The sharpest sentence that steers a meeting.

Roles

Who speaks, who decides, who records.

Facts

Three facts with sources. No opinions at the table.

Actions

Every action has an owner, a date, and a visible status.

Reporting

120 words. One page. No new meeting needed.

Embedding

The meeting machine that keeps running without you.

About Franziska Szabó

Franziska Szabó is the founder of Meeting Cost Reduction and director of PA Online BV. She has 15 years of experience as an international C-suite PA at major corporates, including Metromedia Fiber Network, where she travelled weekly with the CEO and COO between Amsterdam, London, Paris, and Frankfurt.

During those years, Franziska organised and minuted countless meetings. Week after week, the same action points reappeared on the agenda. That question never left her. It is why she developed Meeting Cost Reduction.

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15 years of international C-suite experience
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Founder of the MCR decision-making method
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Founder of PA Online BV, active since November 2000
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Developer of leadership programmes and PA executive search

Frequently asked questions

Meeting Cost Reduction (MCR) is a seven-lesson organisational programme by PA Online BV. It helps management teams make decisions structurally: fewer meetings, shorter meetings, and a higher decision rate per session.

Organisations with 50 to 150 employees spend an average of €105,600 per year on meetings. At €80 per hour with eight participants, one one-hour meeting already costs €640 before a single decision is made.

MCR reduces meeting costs structurally without layoffs. The necessity check eliminates unnecessary meetings, the decision formula raises the decision ratio, and the role card and pre-read shorten meetings by an average of 25%.

The MCR Audit is a 90-minute paid strategic session in which Franziska Szabó calculates your organisation's meeting costs, identifies the three biggest leaks, and draws up a concrete improvement plan. Introduction price €375.

What does meeting cost your organisation?

Calculate it in two minutes, or book the MCR Audit directly.
No sales pitch. A concrete figure and three immediate improvements.

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Your management team meets.But does it decide?