Write An Effective Meeting Agenda
The key to a great meeting starts with proper preparation and ends with thoughtful follow up. So why do we still have meetings that run long, go off-topic, and feel unorganized?
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Our main goal is to help improve your meetings. With over 13,000 Less Meeting users, we've learned a thing or two about the best way to conduct an effective meeting.
Below is our best-practices guide to writing meeting agendas, capturing meeting minutes and following up on action items.
Meeting resources
Pre-Meeting
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Who Should Be Attending Your Meeting?
Do you work with someone who is double-booked for multiple meetings every day, complaining about how they never get anything done because they're in meetings all day?
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How To Plan Your Meeting Schedule
The only thing better than a short meeting is the meeting that gets cancelled. Quick, efficient meetings are fantastic — the problem is, I often bite off more than I can chew.
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How to Follow Up on That Unanswered Meeting Request
Sometimes simply scheduling the meeting can be the hardest part. You met someone with awesome ideas and got their card — now how do you actually get together?
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In-Meeting
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6 Tips to Hush a Talkative Meeting Attendee
We've all been there. You're trying to get through a meeting, and Bob just will NOT stop talking. Here's how to handle it gracefully.
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The Definitive Guide To Meeting Minutes
Sometimes we take for granted that minutes aren't easy to do well. Anyone can create a set of "minutes," but there's a lot that separates the good from the bad.
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Managing The Meeting Hog
There's an interesting analogy between meetings and the NBA: ball hogs and never-ending meetings suffer from the same problem — overconfidence plus under-competence.
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What Should Be In Your Meeting Minutes
Meeting minutes remind attendees of important highlights, action items and key decisions, and help increase accountability within an organization.
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Technology In Meetings
A couple weeks back I was giving a presentation of two solutions. Afterward I asked for a recommendation: "Uhhh, can you repeat that again real quick?" Seriously?!
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Post-Meeting
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5 Email Templates For Following Up On Action Items
Ever walked away from a meeting suspecting nothing discussed will get accomplished? Here are five templates to make sure follow-up items actually get done.
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Tools For Tracking Action Items
At Less Meeting, we're huge fans of getting things done. Here's a quick breakdown of the best tools for tracking action items inside and outside your meetings.
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With automated agendas, structured meeting notes, AI-driven ratings, KPI tracking and automatic action item follow-ups, Less Meeting will keep your meetings short and attendees accountable.