A defined method for running meetings is a vital project management tool. It standardizes the meeting process, minimizes waste, and promotes the effective execution of critical meeting tasks.

Using the Process for Running Effective Meetings tool has a number of benefits:

• It helps keep teams on track.
• It minimizes wasted time and effort in meetings.
• It improves the probability that meetings will be accelerators of the improvement process, rather than slowing it down.
• It promotes clarity and agreement on key tasks to be achieved.
• It provides an historical record of the meeting, decisions, outcomes, assignments, accountabilities, and next steps.

Developed for IHI’s "Methods and Tools for Breakthrough Improvement" course, the Process for Running Effective Meetings tool has been used by hundreds of health care organizations.

Download the tool for detailed instructions.