Make Meetings Work & Tackle Time Management Troubles

To produce workable outcomes, 80% of your work will be done before the meeting. Find out how to prepare to get your meeting on track before it happens.

An agenda helps everyone prepare for the meeting. Discover how to develop a clear agenda that's easy for everyone to follow along.

Use this sample meeting agenda to help you write and plan your own.

Chances are if you're organizing the meeting, you'll be facilitating it as well. But there are other roles you'll want to assign before the meeting happens. Understand who you'll need to invite and which roles you'll need to clarify ahead of time.

Explore six different facilitation strategies you can utilize to get the most out of your meeting.

After the meeting concludes, you'll want to create an action plan geared towards achieving the meeting objectives. Find out the key steps to creating an action plan and how you can build one with your team.

Consider this final piece of advice on asking for feedback after you've concluded a meeting.

Assess your readiness to make meetings work. You need an 80% to pass.

Effective time management skills are essential to your business & personal success. Time is the one resource that renews every day, so it's never too late to start fresh & learn to be more productive.

To understand how you can better balance your time, you need to know how you currently spend it. Find out how to identify where your time management skills need work.

Be proactive, begin with the end in mind & put first things first. Learn how to use these three steps & the importance of goal setting to get your time management on track.

SMART goals are a way to set & create goals that are actually workable. Master the SMART goals & you'll be well on your way to better time management.

Practice identifying the missing element of a SMART goal & writing it in yourself.

It can be hard to form SMART goals for the big, lifetime goals you might have. In that case, Brendon Burchard suggests you give yourself space to learn about the DUMB goal.

Time management means you probably need to wrestle with procrastination. Learn about the different types of procrastination & see which kind you often struggle with to understand where you can make the most effective change.

Put your understanding of procrastination to the test by sorting the procrastinators into the three different types.

Emotions play a role in how effectively you can manage your time. Dive into a podcast with Chris LoCurto & Rory Vaden to learn more about the emotional aspects of time management.

You & your time are limited commodities. Find out how to respect your time & value yourself more in the process.

Interruptions can take up valuable moments in your day. Figuring out how to manage interruptions, both before & after they happen, can add time back to your schedule.

Feel like you're wasting your time in meetings? Find out how to reclaim that time & make meetings more efficient.

Odds are you have quite a few powerful time management tools at your disposal; you just have to know how to use them. Discover different techniques to make readily available time management tools work for you.

Practice filtering tasks so you're only spending time on the ones that actually need your attention.

Check out these words of wisdom from Mark Twain & Peter Drucker on time management tips.

The Law of Diminishing Intent can stall any good idea or project. Understanding why LODI happens & what you can do to keep it at bay will keep you moving forward.

Explore ten effective tips from Don Debolt & Deb Percival for managing the clock.

Think about this final piece of advice on the 80/20 rule as you develop better time management.

Use the tips & tools in this printable PDF to help you tackle time management troubles.

Assess your readiness to tackle time management troubles. You need an 80% to pass.