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5 Steps For Productive Meetings – Time Management

One of the greatest time wasters of all is poorly run meetings . If you want to improve your time management skills, then learn how to have productive meetings.

Dr. Donald E. Wetmore have created five steps that will help you to improve the productivity of your meetings. Even if you are not responsible for running the meeting, bring these suggestions to the person who is responsible.

According to Dr. Donald a person earning $50,000 per year represents an hourly salary cost to the organization of $25 (without adding any benefits). If ten people at this salary level meet for one hour, the cost is $250 for the hour. Then look at what was accomplished. Was it worth $250? Sometimes “yes”. A lot of the times, “no”.

Here is the five steps that will help you to improve the productivity of your meetings.

  1. Ask, “Is the meeting necessary?”
  2. Ask the question, “Am I necessary?”
  3. Prepare an agenda and circulate it in advance to those who will be attending.
  4. Set time for each item to be discussed.
  5. Commit to action. Meetings ought to produce results.

[ via – 5 Steps to a Productive Meeting ]

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