Agendas – Who Needs Them?
Unless you are dealing with a complete narcissist, the main reason someone takes over a meeting is because they didn’t understand the purpose of the meeting in the first place. Pre-reads and Agendas can help address a lack of understanding. And, as most people jump from one meeting to the next, it’s easy for some to be unclear on the goals of any given meeting.
Learning: Pre-reads and Agendas are signposts of intention and can help keep meetings focused.
References and Resources
How to Finally Make Meetings More Productive (Re-Release) by Anne Morriss and Frances Frei/Fixable; Type: Podcast
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As someone who has had to lead all types of meetings over my long career from weekly staff meetings to top administrative meetings, I could not agree more about the importance of having an agenda, sharing it in advance and, if any documents are necessary to help prepare people for discussion, to provide those in advance too. This results in much more productive meeting. It also allows people to walk away feeling like they accomplished something rather than grumble about what big waste of time it was.