Meeting Hygiene (before / during / after)

🕐 Before the meeting

• Know the goal. Ask yourself: what would make this meeting successful? (a decision? feedback? a plan?)
• Send a 2–5 line pre-read if you called the meeting: context + what you need from the other person.
• Bring your artifact. A doc, draft, screenshot, or diagram is 10× more useful than describing it verbally.

🎤 During the meeting

• Open with a 30-second agenda:
  1. Quick context
  2. What we need to decide / discuss
  3. Next steps
• Don’t be afraid of silence. Taking 3 seconds to think > blurting something confused.
• Confirm decisions out loud: “So we’re agreeing to X, and I’ll do Y by Friday — right?”
• Take notes. Even bad notes are better than no notes.

📩 After the meeting

• Send a summary within 24 hours (template in Section 18).
• List action items with an owner and due date — even if the owner is just you.
• Link everything: slides, notes, tickets, drafts. Future-you will thank you.

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