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1. On average I attend more than 10 meetings per week.
2. Less than half of the meetings I attend have a prepared agenda that keeps me clear about why I'm there and the outcomes to be produced.
3. Meetings often extend well beyond their advertised end time.
4. Meetings begin anywhere from 5-15 minutes after their scheduled start time.
5. Participants come and go at our meetings. Very rarely do all participants come at the beginning and stay until the end of a meeting.
6. If an issue requires more than one meeting to resolve, it is rare that the same participants will be at every meeting.
7. Our meetings often adjourn without a clear sense of specific accomplishments or an action plan with specific tasks assigned to participants.
8. Participants often stray from the agenda.
9. There is often more than one person talking at the same time.
10. People are often "beat up" if they express dissent.
11. Participation is uneven i.e. some people dominate and others are silent.
12. I often hear comments by meeting participants after the meeting is over e.g. at the coffee pot, in the parking lot, in the cafeteria that contradict or undermine apparent agreements made at the meeting.
13. Our meetings DON'T encourage teamwork and the free exchange of ideas and information.
14. Real consensus and buy-in for a plan of action is rarely generated at our meetings.
15. The conversation about meetings in our organization is that they are a waste of time
16. The conversation about meetings in our organization is that they are not very productive
17. The conversation about meetings in our organization is that they are there are too many meetings.

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