How to hold effective meeting?

There is something about which my position is crystal clear. I hate long, floating and boring meetings. I really hate them so much. In every meeting in which I am involved, I always dream of making it highly efficient. There are some things to do to make future meetings efficient.

• As a chairman, always prepare beforehand the agenda and the objectives of the meeting. State clearly what the desired output of the meeting is.
• Besides those things, you'd better prepare the alternative feasible solutions to the problems to discuss. It will help you succeed in ending the meeting faster and more smoothly. But never share them to the audience in thebeginning of the meeting. They will see that a new dictator has come to power and he is now speaking to them.
• The next thing is to stick persistently to your agenda and objectives during the meeting. Tell them in clear and brief statementsto all participants, no more than five minutes, so that they have a clear direction and guidance why and what they meet for.
• After the five minutes are over, give a limited longer time to the floor to express their ideas. Be a good moderator and meeting manager during the process. Lead the conversations and the brainstorming. How to do it? All I know is the more you practice, the better meeting chairman you'll be. There's no other way I think, except you are a god. Sometimes playing as a little stern dictator in a meeting is a good thing.
  
• If other issues outside the plan are arised during the meeting, write them down but never discuss them in the meeting you are now having. Focus on your mission.
• If you have come to the limit of discussion time, urge all the people to come to a conclusion. This is one of the best time to lay your cards open and share the alternative solutions you havepreviously prepared. Always remind yourself about the decisions you want to achieve from the meeting.
• In the nearly closing time, check whether you have all your goals fulfilled. If yes, it's time to give all the participants your wide smile and dismiss the meeting.

Preparing and chairing a highly effective meeting is an important skill. It can be learned only by continual practices. And I think if you succeed, you'll become one of the leaders of the majority party: the republic of uneffective meeting haters.