An Agenda That Keeps People Focused

What you'll need

• The meeting's purpose and who's attending
• Any AI chat assistant

The steps

1. Get clear on the one decision or outcome this meeting needs to produce.
2. Paste the prompt and fill in the brackets.
3. Send the agenda ahead of time, not at the start of the meeting.
4. Stick to it — table anything that isn't on it.

Build a tight meeting agenda.

Meeting purpose / the one decision it needs to produce: [outcome]
Who's attending: [list or roles]
Time available: [minutes]
Topics that need covering: [list, roughly]

Give me a time-boxed agenda (topic + minutes each) that leaves room for the main decision, and one line I can send attendees beforehand asking them to come prepared with anything specific.

Give me 3 short phrases I can use in the moment to redirect the conversation back to the agenda without sounding rude.

What you'll get

A time-boxed agenda that keeps the meeting focused on its actual purpose — sent ahead so people show up ready.

If it's not quite right

• Recurring meeting? Add "Make this a template I can reuse each week."
• Too much to cover? Add "Tell me what to cut if we only have [X] minutes."