Below are two meeting agenda templates you can use to plan meetings that are productive.

5 Ways All Meetings Are Not Equal And What to Do About It

Every day, people open their calendars blindly to book a meeting. Add participants. Find a room.

Keyword: blindly. They’re not recognizing the most important step and the key predictor of success:

Identifying whether the meeting is formal or informal.

It’s something that can’t be skipped because the answer dictates the agenda.

Here are five important distinctions between the two meeting types:

1. Buy-in: Have people already agreed to this meeting?

Formal meetings have a handshake before the agenda is…