Give clear direction for delegated responsibility: use the meeting to decide basic plans and then empower individuals to make them happen. Give them goals, parameters, scope, a time line with milestones, any related policies, and specify when and how they will report on their progress.
Immediately publish concise meeting outcomes: distribute point form action items and decisions from a meeting to the members as soon as possible to promote momentum towards their application and completion.
Display key information in the meeting to inform the discussion: use a white board, flip chart, overhead projector or data projector to allow all participants to read and reference pertinent questions and information for the current topic of discussion. This will help reduce the chance of a "What were we deciding?" conversation occurring.
Refrain from creating unnecessary debate: playing the "devil's advocate" is popular in our culture, but if you don't believe in a counter argument, don't waste the group's time by raising it. Don't deliberate about what you don't know: if an issue under discussion requires further investigation to make a sensible decision, then specify the required research, delegate it as an action item, and move on to the next item on the agenda. Don't let meetings deal with issues that should be delegated: don't give agenda time to issues that should be addressed by an individual responsible for that area of a project or organization.
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