Simple Practices To Prevent Wasteful Meetings
Before each session, we need to clarify:
1️⃣ Required participants 👨⚖️ 👩⚖️
2️⃣ Purpose 🤔
3️⃣ Desired outcome 🎯
4️⃣ How to prepare 🤔
5️⃣ Agenda 🗓
It’s super simple and offers some great advantages:
✅ If any of these parts are unclear, ask the organizer for clarification.
✅ If parts remain unclear, don’t join the session!
✅ Meetings are often scheduled way ahead of time, so it serves as a friendly reminder of the meeting.
✅ Defining all these topics up front allows everyone to provide feedback before the session to ensure it becomes even more valuable. For example, “What if we make … the purpose of the session?” or “What if we include agenda item X as well?”
✅ As a meeting organizer, you can expect all the participants to come prepared. If all parts are completed, nobody can use the excuse of not knowing how to prepare.
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