```json
{
    "title": "GTD: Meeting Mantra",
    "url": "https://performancezen.com/2005/06/06/gtd-meeting-mantra/",
    "datePublished": "2005-06-06",
    "dateModified": "2005-06-06",
    "language": "en-US",
    "description": "Jeffrey Philllips has a GREAT post on how to make your meetings more effective. [here] I had already started applying these instinctively, but to see it codified gives me hope…",
    "author": "spierzchala",
    "publisher": "Performance Zen"
}
```

# GTD: Meeting Mantra

Jeffrey Philllips has a

**GREAT**

post on how to make your meetings more effective. [

[here](http://workingsmarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/06/how_to_run_a_su.html)

]
I had already started applying these instinctively, but to see it codified gives me hope that we can pound this into a few people's skulls. It is a serious contributing factor to people failing at GTD.
When you start to actually analyze the meetings you attend, ask yourself some basic questions:

- Was the organizer prepared?
- Was it clear who the organizer was?
- Did this meeting actually require your attandance?
- Were you expected to take a next action?
- Is another meeting necessary to report on your next action, or can it be done informally?
- Do you consider the meeting a success?

If you pass along your comments to the meeting organizer, or simply talk to that person informally, you may be able to evolve meetings in your organization into useful activities.

TECHNORATI:

[GTD](http://www.technorati.com/tag/gtd)

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[Meetings](http://www.technorati.com/tag/meetings)

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[Lifehacks](http://www.technorati.com/tag/lifehacks)

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[Organization](http://www.technorati.com/tag/organization)