Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership

  Here are five handy tips for how to run a better meeting: Limit attendance . Include only decision makers and key implementers. Use an agenda . Give each topic a time limit. Ask your staff to help set the agenda so they'll know the meeting will be relevant. Make sure attendees know at the meeting's beginning the benefit  of why they are in the meeting. Create a not-on-the agenda list  of topics that will be tabled for after the meeting or for another meeting. Set immediate deadlines  for carrying out all decisions that are made during the meeting. If you follow these simple five tips you can prove to your team that meetings  can  be used to get things done!