Does EVERY Team Meeting Need an Agenda?
Kristin Arnold
Facilitating and training your teams to achieve extraordinary results, processes, and relationships through in-person and virtual retreats and meetings
One of my fellow Board members has a wonderful saying that resonates with me and most (if not all!) of my clients:
No Agenda; No Attenda!
But what does that really mean?? Does EVERY meeting need to have an agenda?
My answer is “yes” – even a VERY short meeting!? It doesn’t have to be a long, written agenda, but there should be some kind of way to set the table for a constructive conversation.
A typical team agenda has the following key elements:
For short meetings, simply stating a brief agenda is fine:? “Let’s take ten minutes to discuss the status of our project as well as our next steps for this week.”? For longer meetings, you’ll expand the details as needed.
You may even want to use this?agenda template?to structure your next formal meeting agenda!
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Kristin Arnold MBA, CSP, CPF, CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame | Master, is a professional panel moderator and high stakes meeting facilitator who shares her best practices for interactive, interesting, and engaging panel presentations. She is the author of the award-winning book, Boring to Bravo: Proven Presentation Techniques to Engage, Involve and Inspire Audiences to Action.
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1 年I wonder.... could we extend this notion of "no agenda, no attenda" to prompt a new design of the agenda - from a type of To-Do format to something that includes ... for example.. what we need from people, what we need to achieve,. etc.... To create.... To solve.... To decide... From a recent meeting I went to, some sense of time allocation to avoid more important topics being shortchanged of time. Just thinking.... I know you have put lots of thought into such ideas.