Facilitating Effective Meetings

Summary

A good PM-run meeting has a clear goal, the right (small) group of people, and ends with explicit decisions and owners — not just a discussion that trails off.

• 1Draft an agenda with a stated goal and desired outcome for a hypothetical meeting.
• 2Practice ending a meeting by restating decisions made and who owns each next step.
• 3Learn to cut a meeting from the invite list if it doesn't need to exist.