Conduct Effective Meeting

1. Send out meeting invites ahead of time wherever possible

2. Include right information with the invite (Conference Call Information, Live Meeting or other such tools)

3. Include right participants

4. Make sure to include people as Optional if you think they may be interested

5. Be respectful of others time, start on time and try to end early, if possible.

6. Be sure to include clear Agenda and stick to it

7. Make sure you have one person driving the meeting

8. Be courteous even if things are not going as per your expectation

9. Provide time to each of the participant to voice their opinions

10. Capture minutes and circulate as soon as it is completed so that its fresh in memory of the participants

11. Make sure to highlight who all were present during the meeting

12. Try to use a tool to manage minutes (for eg: OneNote).