Anything worth
doing is worth planning for.� So if a meeting is important, then it
should be planned by creating an agenda.�� Meeting agendas can
greatly enhance meeting productivity. Agendas help focus the meetings and
keep it on track to time restrictions.�
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The most efficient meetings will start by
following the 3T Rule for Meeting Agendas:
When I lead a meeting, at the beginning of each
meeting I review the agenda and get everyone's agreement to it.� This
makes it easier to stick to the timeframes and topics that everyone accepted
at the beginning.� Sticking to the agenda results in a more productive
use of
time.
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At the end of the meeting, I will review our
progress against the agenda to show what we had accomplished.� As part
of any meeting close, where a follow-up meeting will occur, I ask the group
to come up with a tentative meeting list of topics for the agenda of the
next meeting.� This motivates the group to make the next meeting highly
successful too.
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play YouTube video "Defining R.A!R.A! Meeting Management Approach"
showing 4 components to better meetings, one of which is having an agenda.�
"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."� -
Napoleon Hill
