The Basic Rules On Running Effective Meetings #meetings #effectivemeetings

The basic rules that I cover on running effective meetings. Every meeting has to have a clear purpose. Why are we running it? A meeting can only have a maximum of three outcomes. If there's more than three things we need to get done, have a separate meeting. Because it usually involves a separate group of people. Every meeting has to have an agenda. What are you covering, in what order, and how many minutes are on each agenda? I try to book the meetings for half the time. I first think about booking them for, as a rule, and I teach everyone that. So if you're like, let's get together for a half a day, book it for two hours, let's book an hour meeting, book it for 30. It's like a quickie. You can get it done in less time if you need to. Right. Every meeting has to start exactly on time, regardless of if somebody's showing up late for meetings. Start. Because there's not a single Olympic athlete in the world that shows up going, oh, sorry I'm late. Right? The race has already started. The reason that people show up late for meetings is everything runs back to back. So what the rule becomes internally, every meeting and every phone call and every zoom meeting finishes five minutes prior to the scheduled ending time.