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Timeboxing - Keeping Meetings on Track

Timeboxing is a great tool which can be applied to meetings to help make sure you cover everything on your agenda, finish on time, and stay on-topic.

Here's how it works...

The first rule is that every meeting needs two things - an Agenda and a Time Limit. The second of these isn't usually an issue - most meetings are scheduled to start and end at a given time. The first is sometimes an issue. I'm sure most people have, at some point, been to a meeting with no agenda, or just a vague topic to discuss.