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How to Have Great Meetings: 10 Tips for 

Conducting Effective Meetings 

There are a lot of ways to improve the quality of your 

meetings, from basic meeting best practices to creative 

ideas that have worked for other great companies which 

you can test with your team.  

Later, we’ll talk about some remote/COVID-specific tips 

for conducting effective meetings. First, here are some 

more general evergreen tips for having great meetings 

regardless of when, where, or how you are having them.  

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1. Take good notes 

Taking notes might sound basic, but it offers a few big 

benefits that are easy to overlook. 

One of the most important is what taking notes does to 

your brain. When you take notes, it coaxes your brain to 

organize what you’re hearing in a way that you understand 

it. That makes you far less likely to miss something 

important or to misunderstand what was said.  

That’s not the only way taking notes helps you get more 

from your meetings, though. Taking notes also: 

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Gives you a record of what was discussed during the 

meeting for easy reference later 

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Sets a good example for your team, that you take what 

you’re discussing seriously 

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Helps improve your memory of what was discussed 

As Andy Grove wrote in High Output Management: 

“Equally important is what “writing it down” symbolizes…the 

act implies a commitment, like a handshake, that something will 

be done.” 

Taking notes is a simple act with a high return on 

investment for you and your coworkers. And once you’re 

already taking notes, this next tip will make your meetings 

even better.