so, just as in any other work activity, the better prepared you are for them, the better the results you can expect.
− Have an agenda. An agenda — a list of the topics to be covered during the course of a meeting — can play a critical role in the success of any meeting.
− Start on time and end on time. Everyone has suffered through meetings that went waybeyond the scheduled ending time.
− Have fewer (but better) meetings. Call a meeting only when it is absolutely necessary
− Include, rather than exclude. Meetings are only as good as the ideas that the participants bring forward