Meeting management

So many of us have our days scheduled with meeting after meeting. Once a meeting starts late it probably will run late and the domino affect hits each subsequent meeting of the day. Or, you're running from one meeting to the next without time to breathe.

Scott Berkun gives some impactful thoughts on starting meetings on time in his article: How to Start Meetings on Time. Some of his key thoughts: If you call a meeting, do your job; enforce the clock; and most importantly: only have meetings that matter.

You may find it's effect to say, "We're aiming to keep this a 30-minute meeting so we must move on to another topic."