How to Run an Effective Meeting

Neal Whitten, PMP

PM Network 19 (June 1999)

Meetings, meetings, and more meetings. Aren’t we ever going to get some real work done around this place? How many times have you have heard this? Perhaps you’ve said it yourself a time or two. It has been my experience that most meetings are poorly planned and conducted and, frankly, waste a significant amount of time.

Let’s look at a short list of meeting guidelines that can correct this common but pervasive problem.

Plan the meeting. Make sure that the attendees critical to the meeting’s success are properly informed and have committed to attend. Reschedule the meeting if the required attendees cannot participate and the meeting cannot be sufficiently productive. ...

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