# Meetings need to be designed If you want useful outcomes, you need to design your meetings. It's all too easy to accept a meeting request, get into the room, and waste everyone's time. Meetings and calls are no places for improv. We need to carefully design meetings to avoid common pitfalls. The first design step is to be clear about the agenda, the topics to discuss, the participants, etc. Useful meetings are only possible when everyone knows what needs to be discussed, evaluated, decided, etc.