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CASE 17: Writing a Directive About Using Agendas for Meetings
Your supervisor is concerned that weekly meetings among the engineering staff at your company take too long—and therefore cost the company too much money. Because one of your tasks is to take minutes for these meetings, you know all too well that they are often inefficient. Your supervisor asks you to look into creating or adapting an agenda to impose structure and shorten the meetings and to write a directive explaining why agendas will now be used for these meetings. To get to work improving your company's meeting policy, go here.