Stephen Robbins here.

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Oh boy, meetings!

I just love meetings!

No, I don't.

I hate meetings.

And it's all because they suck up so much time for so little return.

They're the grown-up equivalent of a playdate

with PowerPoint playing the role of the sandbox, except the other kids are backstapping

sociopaths whose secret desire is to sabotage you any way they can. Did I say grown-up

equivalent? Yeah, strike the grown-up part of that. Meetings suck up so much time because they

aren't run well. In past episodes, I've

covered assigning roles, having a focus meeting type, and leading a meeting even when you're not

the facilitator, but none of those things will help you if you don't know how to use an agenda.

Here are six tips to creating and sticking to a meeting agenda. Tip number one is make an agenda in advance.

You can't stay on track unless you know where the track is.

An agenda is the track.

It's simply a list of topics you'll cover in the meeting,

along with how much time you'll spend on each one.

For example, Europa is expanding her business empire

by opening a new third world country.

She says it's cheaper than opening stores in an existing third world country.

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