The Parking Lot Meeting Hack: How to End Every Meeting with Clear Action Items

Every meeting ends the same way: "Let's circle back on that." And then nobody circles back. This is the parking lot problem. Good ideas get parked and never retrieved. The fix is simple: end every meeting with a parking lot, and make it everyone's job to empty it. What Is a Parking Lot? A parking lot is a list of topics that came up during a meeting but aren't relevant to the agenda at that moment. They get "parked" for later discussion. Most teams do this. Almost no teams actually follow up on