Most professionals waste almost 3.8 hours a week on unproductive, poorly prepared meetings. We need a solution. Weekdone (https://weekdone.com) built a fun free interactive meeting assistant Team Meeting Checklist (http://teammeetingchecklist.com) that helps save time and increase focus on these time consuming meetings. Taking together different researches we came up with a list of guidelines that offer a pretty clear glimpse to how an effective team meeting should look like. Going through the list one by one might be time-consuming, which is why we built the interactive version of the list called Team Meeting Checklist. Quoting ArcticStartup: "Real secret ingredient of the meeting manager lies in the checklist, or the list of 25 criteria, which, according to Weekdone, takes no more than 5 minutes to go through (while potentially saving several working hours that would've otherwise been lost due to crappy meeting orchestration)". The idea behind Team Meeting Checklist is simple: before each gathering, the team leader takes 5 minutes to go through the checklist and create a meeting invite including the most crucial details. The system will send an automatically compiled email to all participants, summarizing details and ground rules for the upcoming meeting. This simple solution acts as a meeting reminder for the participants and social pressure tool to honor the effective meeting criteria for the leader. Furthermore, it provides a fantastic base for giving feedback and reflecting on the progress. Which are the guidelines you tend to forget the most? Learn more from our blog (https://blog.weekdone.com/criteria-for-effective-team-meeting/).

1. 30 Criteria for an
Effective Team Meeting
People spend 3.8 hours a week on
unproductive meetings.
To waste no-ones time, follow these 30
proven criterias of an effective meeting.
Visit http://teammeetingchecklist.com

2. Before the team meeting:
• Define the objective
• Determine
participants
• Set meeting time &
location
• Prepare & distribute
agenda
• Distribute all other
background material
• Prep the room

3. During the team meeting:
• Start on time
• Establish ground rules
• Review meeting agenda
• Clarify the purpose
• Put agenda on a screen
• Follow the agenda
• Discuss 1 topic at a time

4. During the team meeting:
• Discuss 1 person at a time
• Keep discussions relevant
• Wrap-up each agenda item
• Follow time-schedule
• Give everyone a chance to
speak
• Use open-ended questions
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5. Outcome of the team meeting
• Make progress toward the objective
• Summarize important discussions
• Document assigned tasks and
deadlines
• Announce details for the next
meeting
• End on time
• Make sure everyone knows the next
step

6. After the team meeting
• Send a follow-up memo within
24 hours
• Follow-up the delegation
decisions
• Put unfinished business up for
next meeting

7. Find the meeting checklist online!
Check if your team meeting meets the
requirements. Notify others and commit to
productive team meetings.
Go to http://teammeetingchecklist.com

8. Weekdone.com - rethink meetings
To make your team
collaborate efficiently and
save time from unproductive
team meetings check out
https://weekdone.com/teammeeting

9. References
1. Meeting Analysis - Findings from Research and Practice by Nicholas C. Romano, Jr. and Jay F.
Nunamaker, Jr. 2001
[http://www.okstate.edu/ceat/msetm/courses/etm5221/Week%201%20Challenges/Meeting%20Analysis%
20Findings%20from%20Research%20and%20Practice.pdf]
2. Perceived Meeting Effectiveness: The Role of Design Characteristics by Desmond J. Leach, Steven G.
Rogelberg, Peter B. Warr, Jennifer L. Burnfield, 2009.
[http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10869-009-9092-6]
3. Learning Today Leading Tomorrow - Developing Leadership Potential, 2005
[http://www.itcarlow.ie/public/userfiles/files/Effective%20meetings%20.pdf]
4. Holden Leadership Center - Running Effective Meetings
[http://leadership.uoregon.edu/resources/exercises_tips/skills/running_effective_meetings]
5. MeetingKing - Checklist for Productive and Effective Meetings
[http://meetingking.com/checklist-for-effective-and-productive-meetings/]
6. Community Tool Box - Conducting Effective Meetings
[http://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/leadership/group-facilitation/main]
7. Meetings Matter: Effects of Team Meetings on Team and Organizational Success by Simone Kauffeld
and Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock 2012 [http://sgr.sagepub.com/content/43/2/130.abstract]
8. “How to Make Meetings Work,” by Michael Doyle and David Straus