From the course: Creating a Meeting Agenda
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Timings
- We've already seen that a meeting should be an hour long at the most, ideally only 45 minutes, and that individual items should also have times allocated to them. Five discussion items of 10 minutes each is about as fast as you can do. It's pretty hard to do 10 items in only five minutes each, unless you're just briefly checking things on a list. So as well as start and finish times for the meeting, which must be kept to, you would put in the start and finish times of each item, not just how long it lasts. These are more flexible, but if you get behind, then you know you have to catch back up somehow. You'll also need to allow a short time at the start of the meeting for introductions if people haven't met before, and for the leader to summarize the overall objective of the meeting, and if necessary, the style of meeting that you want to have: informal, focused, creative, honest and open, whatever. And also any rules about laptops and phones, etc. This will only take five minutes…
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