I would like to share the following tips i learned when i had attended a time  management workshop recently.

• Decide in advance when meetings will start and stop. Let participants know this information before the meeting begins.
• Start and Stop on schedule. Start on time even if everyone isn’t there.
• Schedule time blocks for each item to be discussed. Make sure meeting participants know how much time is allotted for each item.
• Keep track of time. Comments such as “We have only30 minutes left,” help keep people on track.

Last but finally, if you want to make meetings shorter, take the chairs out of the room !  Funny though it may look, but according to Allen Bluedorn, associate professor of management at the University of Missouri, meetings in which all participants stand are a third shorter than sit-down conferences-yet the decisions made in them are just as sound.