How to make meetings productive

Anyone who works in a fairly large company knows that for all sorts of meetings could leave too much precious time. How to hold meetings, to be productive and effective.

• agenda should be clear
  What will you discuss? Do you need new ideas or you want to discuss old? Prepare the agenda ahead of time and stick to it.
• invite only really necessary parties
  This will eliminate a bunch of delays and white noise.
• declare the objectives of the meeting
  What do you want to get out of the negotiation? I am sure that more is not with the satisfaction of a good discussion. We need a result.
• Prepare participants in advance
  If the topic is complex enough for a short meeting, pre-distribute materials to it. If the act will be the participants - the more they have to come prepared.
• make a short meeting
  This can be done different ways have long known: the rules, time-boxing, a leading ...
• record the key comments and solutions
  How to record - it does not matter, it can be like a leaf with a crooked handwriting and voice recorder. It is important that information is not lost, you used it, and the decision was communicated to all concerned.
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• create a list of tasks and assign them
  Every meeting should end with a list of tasks to be performed, otherwise why all this was necessary?
• to track and report their progress
  This is not related directly to meetings, but regular monitoring of the progress assignments encourage participants serious approach to future meetings and not to waste neither their nor your time.

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