Keeping Meetings Timely

We have improved the focus and reduced the time of our team meetings since our VP of sales implemented two facilitating techniques. Our agenda now includes a budgeted amount of time for each topic. If we approach the assigned time for the topic she will interrupt and ask another team member “what do you think about this?” or say “we are nearing our allocated time limit, what action do you want us to take?” No one is offended, and meetings stay on time.