For Productive Team Meetings

- Start the meeting on time
- Follow the agenda
- Conduct one piece of business at a time
- Allow each attendee to participate in his/her own way
- Offer support and challenges to understand concerns and issues, and expose different viewpoints
- Use silence to seek opinions; it doesn't always mean agreement
- Lead the group to decisions and through the decisionmaking process
- Validate commitment for the decisions made
- Assign roles and responsibilities to avoid lack of clarity
- Agree on follow up actions and delivery dates
- Review next steps (including follow ups) before the meeting ends
- Establish the time and location for the next meeting
- End on time
- Review:  in your mind was the meeting necessary?  What can be changed to be more effective next time?