Basic Ad-hoc/Tactical Meeting Agenda

A flexible meeting agenda for almost any occasion.

For a Google doc version of this agenda you can easily copy into a new doc, click here.

The Before-Action and After-Action Review agendas are designed for a single task, like hosting an event. This agenda is better suited for a fixed team that repeatedly collaborates on similar tasks, though such a team could still use BARs and AARs for a specific project.

• Clarify the roles of each person present, including facilitator.

• Silent meditation proportional to meeting length.

• Check-in round.

• Contemplation of why we are here (optional).

• State purpose of meeting: [purpose]

• Update on action items, projects, and metrics as needed.

• Build agenda

  • [list agenda items, or use the table below]

• Process agenda items

• Check-out round.

Agenda Table

Agenda Item	Name & role bringing it	Time (best guess in minutes)	Type 1. Request of someone else to do something 2. Ask for information or help making a decision 3. Share information or give input into someone else’s decision 4. Governance	Priority 1. Mission critical: something really bad will happen if this isn’t processed today 2. There’s a good reason why this is urgent 3. Can go after mission critical & urgent stuff 4. Not time-sensitive
Example: Marketing strategy	Arjun	10	2	3