Staff meetings in a business organization: How to ensure that it doesn't take too long?

[Min George]

A structured business organization that has up to five staff is supposed to have periodic staff meetings. Nothing wrong with that. But I have worked in organizations that staff meetings took as much as four hours.

What measures can a business organization take to ensure that staff meetings don't stretch like that?

 

[oliver991]

Keep it tight with a written agenda and time-boxed topics. Once a subject hits its time limit, move on. Most long meetings are just a lack of structure.

 

[Kera]

Keep it tight with a written agenda and time-boxed topics. Once a subject hits its time limit, move on. Most long meetings are just a lack of structure.

I agree. If the meeting has a solid agenda and aim, it would not become too long. It is unplanned staff meetings that take too long.

 

[Trush Jodie]

Don't allow side talks and other unnecessary deliberations that are not in the agenda come into the meeting session, else it would elongate.

 

[eLdavis]

Having frequent meetings would reduce the amount of things you need to talk about on each meeting days, then again ensure that each and everyone goes straight to the point.

 

[King Belieal]

Everything should be done briefly and items on the agenda could still be moved to another meeting. You must not exhaust everything on the agenda, learn to move the motion to another day.

 

[Augusta]

Create a clear meeting agenda
Make sure you have a well-planned agenda before going into an all-staff meeting. These agenda best practices can help: Categorize agenda items: