Six Rules To Increase Meetings' Effectiveness

The purpose of most meetings is to discuss current problems and make decisions. However, very often meetings are scheduled unnecessarily. We may have been invited to a meeting and a less time-consuming way to handle the situation could have been used.

A publication of Harvard Business Review in March 2015, titled "Do You Really Need to Hold That Meeting?", authored by  Elizabeth Grace Sounders, recommends that we should ask ourselves the following questions in order to decide if  calling a meeting is necessary:

-Have I thought through this situation? 
-Do I need outside input to make progress? 
-Does this require a real-time conversation? 
-Does this  require a meeting?

If we answered YES to all these questions... than these rules may be helpfull: