Preparing meetings that run on time
Agendas, materials, rooms and follow-up actions: the admin work that makes meetings useful.
- Level
- Beginner
- Length
- About 25 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 1 Oct 2026
Skills you'll practise
- Prepare an agenda with owners and times
- Check room, equipment and access before the meeting
- Circulate materials early enough to read
- Record decisions and actions with owners and dates
Course outline
- 1.Meetings that run on timeVideo · 1 min
- 2.Before, during and afterLesson · 10 min
- 3.Agendas, papers and actions that workLesson · 12 min
- 4.Rooms, hybrid meetings and accessLesson · 12 min
- 5.Preparing meetings that run on time: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 15 questions
- 6.Preparing meetings that run on time: practical exerciseKnowledge check · 1 question
- 7.Final exam7 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- General office administration and recordkeeping practice
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