The best meetings we've been in end with the same three lines:
- What did we decide?
- Who owns what?
- When do we check back in?
That's it. If you can't answer those, the meeting didn't happen — you had a chat.
A summary tool can pull those out of a transcript. But it's easier if the meeting had them in the first place.
Try this: five minutes before the end, stop the meeting and write the three lines on the shared doc. If people push back, that's the meeting telling you it wasn't ready.
