Effective Meetings Use a Written Agenda Tip #2

you must have a written agenda there are lots of variations of agendas no two are identical and it really depends upon the Norms of your organization but generally speaking agendas fall into two overall categories there are meeting agendas that focus on sharing information and other agendas that focus on decision making or problem solving in a typical information driven meeting the agenda will list topics like announcements status updates various topics of discussion including categories like old business and new business less frequently the other type of agenda will emphasize the key decisions that need to be made

or the problems that the group is there to solve problem solving meetings like this typically follow the traditional problem-solving steps first we identified the problem then we analyze the problem in more depth then we generated possible solutions identified our best Solutions and finally took steps to implement our decision