Meeting planning and an effective meeting are key to great communications in teams and yet the below simple and powerful strategies are often overlooked.

If you are here pressed for time and just looking for a quick fix to move your meetings from slow, boring and conflict struck happenings to efficient, powerful and meaningful gatherings, you can jump straight to end list at the end of this article where you have the quick version. To get more of the meat, more of the essence and lost of help to boost you there, take a chunk of your time and keeping reading below, it will be worth it.

Have you been there? Have you felt it? How the meeting is over and you are not quite sure what you accomplished?

Or even before the meeting was over, right in the midst of action, or lack of it, you felt irritated because you were stuck or bored because you wandered aimlessly from one topic to another without any sense of direction.

Maybe you were surprised or even upset with that the meeting never get to be about that one thing that you thought it was going to be about. Everybody else kept talking about other things that you could not have cared less about.

Keep reading below and I will share some of the secrets that make meetings efficient, energized and excellent. People often ask me for advise on this topic since they have experienced how these strategies I will give you below work their magic when applied properly.

There are some timeless sure-fire strategies that will greatly improve your meetings to levels you did not think was possible, yet where few know them. That is they might have heard them here and there, but they do not apply them at their own gatherings and make them everyday practice.

So, if you are ready to take the next step in making your meetings a place of growth, contribution and high production, read on and apply. If you are not ready, if you are one of those that read management and leadership books just to forget about them as soon as you have finished them or even before you have finished them, if you are not ready to change that, please stop here and go find something else to do because you will just be wasting your time here.

And time is a major reason for making your meetings more efficient, it is an ever more precious jewel, and people including yourself should not waste their time at badly planned, badly initiated and even worsely executed meetings.

Ten timeless, tested and proven strategies to take your meetings to a whole new level

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