Defining the objective
Today I think we should start. Now, as you all know, we're here to discuss the main issue arising from the first meeting. As you can see, there are five items all meetings perform, but if you are trying to use a meeting to achieve definite objectives, there are in practice only certain types of objectives it can really achieve. Every item on the agenda can be placed in one of the following four categories, or divided up into sections that fall into one or more of them.