You've planned ahead and plotted out your agenda items for your meeting, prepared decision makers and have a defined purpose for the meeting. In spite of all of this, things will still come up that aren't on topic, take too much time to address or simply aren't a good fit for the meeting itself.
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We've all been there. A meeting is running short of time, you have a presenter queued up waiting for their turn and there's a quick decision to be made. There's a bit of discussion and the agenda moves on. Later when you're reconstructing what happened for the minutes, you know a decision was indeed...
If you recall, in the previous post I covered what is an action required. And in this post, we're going to go over how to track them in the context of a meeting.
In most cases, actions required, or ARs for short, should be formally captured and not left up to chance to be completed. During the c...
The term Action Required, or AR for short, was originally coined by Andy Grove of Intel. It's synonymous with what others might call an Action Item or even just a task or to-do. Their use often originates from meetings, but can also be used in less formal settings such as hallway conversations. Bu...
Another key aspect of having an effective meeting is capturing the attendance to the meeting. Many folks upon the mention of this cringe a little due to the implications and potential frictions involved. But the value of having an attendance list far outweighs any potential negatives.
Foremost, ha...
In many meetings there will be decisions that will need to be made. Sometimes these decisions are informal and can be decided by anyone. Other times though, the process is more formal and you need to get a decision from someone with the proper level of authority. In this post we'll discuss how to ha...
Posting Your Meeting Minutes By now you should be aware that you should post your meeting minutes within 24 hours of the meeting being held. But this is just the start of the expectations and actions that you should take.
The best place to start when thinking about your meeting minutes is a fram...
10 How to Take Notes Meeting notes are an important aspect of the lifecycle of a meeting. These notes feed directly into the meeting minutes and are the foundation of the follow up and closure of a meeting. It's often best to capture these notes during the meeting rather than try and reconstruct the...
How to run a meeting is something that can be as easy as riding a bicycle to as complicated as putting together an engine. Entire books can be written on this subject and one could spend their entire career in meetings and still not be an expert. So needless to say, this single blog post is just a s...
You've invited folks to a meeting and one of them has declined. What do you do now? I've already covered whether you should attend a meeting as an attendee, but what do you do if you're the organizer?
The first thing to do is find out why you received the decline. Ideally the person declining wo...