How to balance between meetings and individual work? What are your ideas?

Blocking one day in the weeks for strictly meetings only and blocking few days for strict no meetings .

I tend to dedicate my mornings to deep work and take my meetings only in afternoons. I thus reserve the periods of the day where I'm most focused to move forward with my own work and only exceptionally accept meetings on these slots.

Break up tasks by high priority, mid priority and low priority to complete individual work then schedule meetings during your slow hours/days.

Although I don't have meetings, what's should be important to note before you have a frequent meeting would be asking some questions: 1. What purpose does this meeting serve? 2. What happens if I miss a few meetings? What are the consequences, and how likely are they? 3. If I don't have this meeting, what can I get done? You'll often notice that you often don't need as many meetings as you think. Checking on progress is important, but you should put trust in your team to produce results. Also, you can also question how long do the meetings actually need to be. It's more than likely some of the time is eaten up by introductions and niceties or other subjects being covered. So if you could streamline meetings, that would also reduce the time taken.

Fewer meetings is better. We do not really have any, just ad-hoc one-on-one calls via Slack.

I plan to have all my meetings within a 3hr slot if possible and have the rest of the time to work on my personal task.

This is a challenge, as both are important. For me, I list my to-do work every day, also KOL is a good tool for managing teamwork.

Try to reduce some meaningless meetings and talk about substantive issues as much as possible instead of meaningless discussions

I usually try to keep meetings together for example blocking either first half or second half for meeting so that I get a good stretch for work