agreedo: Stop wasting your time in meetings!

Business meetings can often be a complete waste of time and believe me I’ve been to enough of them to know that’s very true. In fact I’ve been to meetings that have had nothing to do with business and they can be a total waste of time too.

The reason for this in most cases stems from a lack of proper preparation. This lack of preparation usually means that action points are never recorded, minutes are not circulated and any follow-up plans that were actually discussed are completely forgotten about.

Agreedo can help get you get organized so that all aspects of a meeting are properl planned online from start to finish. If you call a meeting you can set out an agenda and send it along with an invitation to those colleagues required to attend. These guys can then add any additional items they want to discuss and add comments to existing ones.

Taking minutes in the meeting couldn’t be easier with fields linked to the agenda items and keyboard shortcuts are available to speed things up. By entering the email address of colleagues assigned agreed tasks will also make sure the follow up can’t be forgotten. You can also mark actual decisions made.

With all participants signed up to the system it’s simple to track individual follow-up commitments with completed tasks marked in Agreedo instantly notified to other members. Follow up meetings can then be scheduled with any items still open from the previous meeting easily copied over for further discussion.

Conclusion

This is a great free tool for making sure that meetings have some focus attached to them, important decisions are recorded and follow-up action doesn’t get consigned to the pending tray for months. As well as for business use, clubs and associations would be advised to consider it too if their meetings often deteriorate into just a meaningless discussion.