Great point.

If someone starts to update on a less urgent topic, you can politely stop them and say, “Yes, let’s definitely talk about the venue choice for the team holiday party offline, but given the time limit here, let’s keep this meeting focused on the 50% drop we saw over the weekend in sign-ups.” Do this a few times, and people will get the message.

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Jessica Powell

Peter H Christian

1 min readApr 26, 2020

Great point. Unfortunately not often used. I’ve seen the leader let unrelated topics crop up and lose control.

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