How to Make Your Meeting a Success?
You determined that there is value in organizing your meeting but you saw too many occurrences of disorganized, inefficient ones. If you want to make sure that your meeting will be a tremendous success, this flowchart shows the few steps that you need to follow:
This flowchart is part of the Ultimate Meeting Prep Flowchart.
Is there an appropriate agenda?
Meetings without an agenda are not fun. They last longer, they are too broad and at the same time not enough, they are too precise and at the same time not enough. The topic of the day might change during the discussions and in the end, you will have attended a whole different meeting than expected. You may even have to organize a new one to tie all the loose ends. The agenda should be clear, each item’s scope easily understandable, and how much time was allocated obvious.
Are there appropriate goals?
What you want to achieve during this meeting. A decision, a solution, more team cohesion, the goals are up to you. You should aim for few goals that are reasonably achievable, you and your team will not solve world hunger in a single meeting (it will need at least two).
