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Two Things to Do After Every Meeting
To Do After Every Meeting
After and in between meetings, quickly send out clear and concise meeting notes and follow up on the commitments made.
- If you don’t capture the conversation and put it into a form that can be easily retrieved later, the thinking and the agreements can be lost.
- Persistence is a key influence skill. If you want anything to happen, you must follow up.
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- They achieve the meeting's objective.
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- Timing – how much time will spend on each topic?
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- Place – where will the meeting take place?