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EFFECTIVE AGENDAS: DESIRED OUTCOMES

CONCEPTS AND METHODS FOR SETTING OBJECTIVES

  • Overall Goals and Meeting Goals
  • Seven Types of Meeting Goals
  • Setting Outcomes for a Meeting
  • Defining Desired Outcomes: Questions to Ask a Person-in-Charge

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This graphic is known as a Multiple Time Frames map.* It was developed by the authors to depict the nesting of short-term goals within long-term goals.

As shown, the overall goal of a given project may take several meetings to achieve. By comparison, each meeting can be seen on its own terms, as a context within which the group can make progress toward the overall goal, by achieving two or three narrow meeting ...

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