Making Meetings More Productive

Author: erics, Posted May 24th, 2012 at 9:10:26am

A great article in the Wall Street Journal:

Advice from executives, meeting planners and trainers on productive meetings:

Set a clear agenda.
Impose a ‘no devices’ rule or schedule periodic tech breaks for email, texts and phone calls.
Redirect people back to the agenda when they ramble or digress.
Draw out quiet people by asking them in advance for a specific contribution.
Do a ’round robin,’ when appropriate, to allow everyone to contribute.
Ask early for objections to keep them from derailing discussions later.
Limit the length of slide presentations.
Interrupt people who talk too long or talk to each other.
Set an ending time for the meeting and stick to it.

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