Welcome to Manager Tools. Today's topic, Effective talk about actions you can take, some abbreviated even more than we talked

about the first time, that will still make your meetings better than everybody else's.

And as we've said before, in the land of the

blind, the one-eyed manager is CEO. Yeah, exactly. So let's start with the

start on time thing. Because starting on time is so short to begin with that the

abbreviated version must be yeah forget about it.

Yeah, okay so so remember I we talked before I think I started by saying the agenda,

pre-publishing agenda was a hurdle for many people, right?

I think I said that.

Yes.

So, so look, to heck was sending out an agenda.

Seriously, we know, really, not seriously,

we want you to send out agendas,

but if you're going to use this strip-down guidance,

don't send out an agenda.

Oh, I can't believe, I just, I I just I just had a little foresaw on of like I can't believe I said that but look if we have to take small steps and we're moving in the right direction fine let's take small steps

on let's not stand still for days and argue right? Let's not stand still for days and argue, right?

So lots of managers we talk to haven't implemented lots of this guidance because, you know, they

don't know how to create an agenda or they don't want to go through the process of thinking

what I'm fun whatever okay but that said so many of us are not running our meetings well

and there are some things we can do so let's be clear about what we mean about

starting on time. If your meeting is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. be in the

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