Our meetings degenerate into long discussions with no concrete outcomes

Do your meetings start with a specific purpose and expected outcome? Discussion is good at the appropriate time: it's needed to work through issues, requirements, designs, or plans. But team meetings are ultimately supposed to yield action, and review meetings should yield conclusions about the state of what's being reviewed and next-step actions for those items. Here are some suggestions for using good meeting management tools to deal with this particular meeting problem.

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