Track time for meeting agenda items
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Give each agenda item a time allocation and track it as the meeting runs, so overruns become visible while there is still time to do something about them.
Meetings do not usually overrun because one item took slightly longer. They overrun because the first item took twice its allocation and nobody noticed until the end.
Allocate time per agenda item, make the timer visible to everyone, and treat an overrun as an explicit decision rather than something that just happens. Most overruns come from early items, not late ones.
Yes. When everyone can see the time, keeping to it becomes a shared responsibility instead of the facilitator having to interrupt people.
Decide openly: extend it and drop something else, or park it for later. The problem is not overrunning, it is overrunning without anyone choosing to.