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One Less Meeting Gets You Home In Time For Dinner written by Lonnie Pacelli
As much as I may grouse about meetings, some of them were necessary, beneficial and effective. Then again, there were those that were a total waste of time and could have been accomplished by some other means. The million dollar question then becomes, “How do you keep the beneficial meetings and eliminate the wastes of time?” In my experience, there are several situations where meetings are generally more appropriate than doing through other means...

Drive a Tight Agenda, Don't Let It Drive You written by Lonnie Pacelli
An effective agenda goes beyond start time, location, topics, and durations. Effective agendas do the following: support the meeting purpose, set the expectations of attendees as to what will be discussed, inform attendees of any preparation that will be required prior to the meeting, give the meeting leader a roadmap for driving the agenda, permit adequate time to cover each item, and allow the meeting leader to adjust the agenda easily if the meeting gets behind schedule. The meeting owner drives the agenda, not the other way around. There are times where you may have a concise meeting purpose and specific agenda items to address the meeting purpose, but the actual meeting deviates from the agenda.

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