This is Steve Robbins.

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

Meetings. I just love meetings.

No, no, I don't.

I hate meetings.

But not all meetings.

Just horrible and productive time wasting, ambiguous, soul-sucking, inefficient, unclear, vague, chatty, redundant meetings, which is most of them. In episode six, 11 years ago, can you believe it, meeting madness one,

we learned how to make meetings better by understanding the kinds of meetings that you're running.

And then in episode 14, we learned to speed up meetings by assigning roles. And then there was a

10-year gap because, you know, meetings. And in how to lead a

meeting when you're not the facilitator, we learned to make sure that everything was under control,

your control. Now, if I facilitated every meeting, it would be different. People who have been in

meetings with me start by cowering and fear at my impressively productive approach, but they come around, and before

long, every meeting becomes a model of perfectly productive process, or else.

While it's impossible for me, or glorious me, as I like to think of myself, to run every

meeting for you, here are the top five things that you can do in your next meeting to make

things run smoothly.

And, because you are glorious you, devoted to all that is good in the world, I'm going to give you 20% more things than any other top five list you've ever encountered.

So hold on to your hats because it's going to be a wild ride.

One, have the right people in the room.

Because when you're calling a meeting, make sure you know who will attend and why.

Meetings cost money.

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