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Ending meetings with action

Ending meetings with action

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Ending meetings with action

- I was once working with a client, who complained that it seemed like every meeting they had, they just walked away and didn't really do anything about it. Does this seem like a common problem to you? I believe it is, it's so often that we have these meetings, and then no action comes out of them. This can leave us feeling like it was just a wasted amount of time for us to get together. Now, the value of a meeting comes from what we do as result of them. We want to make sure that we end every meeting with clear action steps for people to take. If you're the facilitator, or the leader of the meeting, it's your job to make sure that this takes place. Here are a few questions that you can ask to make sure every meeting ends with an action. Number one, what will we do. In other words, what will we do as a result of what we talked about. Let's have a discussion about it and come away with a few, clear action steps. Number two,…

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