How To Create The Perfect Meeting Agenda

One of the most significant factors that leads to both loss of productivity and incredible frustration is ineffective meetings.  Too many meetings that accomplish nothing more than information updates can destroy team collaboration and personal leadership development.  Great meetings ask questions, solve problems and build trust.  This HBR post is a must read for leaders:

“Read any book on running effective meetings and, chances are, one of the first recommendations is going to be to set an agenda. Managers are often led to believe that having a written plan is the key for an engaging and successful meeting. Sadly, it’s not that easy. Research has actually found little to no relationship between the presence of an agenda and attendees’ evaluation of meeting quality. What matters is not the agenda itself but the relevance and importance of what’s on it, and how the leader facilitates discussion of the agenda items.”

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