Meeting Preparation Protocol

You open the calendar invite. No agenda. Three unfamiliar names in the invite. A PDF attachment you haven't read. You tell yourself you'll figure it out. Then you spend the meeting asking basic questions, missing context, and walking out without clarity on what was decided. The fix is not longer meetings. It's shorter preparation. This protocol walks you through a 15-minute pre-meeting workflow that covers every variable: the agenda structure, who you're meeting with and what they care about, what pre-reads actually matter, the questions that unlock productive discussion, and how to record decisions so action items aren't lost in Slack threads. What you get: MEETING_PREP_PROTOCOL.md — the complete skill with step-by-step workflow. AGENDA_TEMPLATE.md — structure for any meeting type (status update, decision, brainstorm, 1:1). PARTICIPANT_BRIEF.md — 5-minute research template with stakeholder mapping questions. PREREAD_SUMMARIZER.md — extraction technique for long documents. QUESTION_BANK.md — 50+ discussion prompts organized by meeting goal. DECISION_RECORD.md — template that forces clarity on who decides, what they decided, and by when. ACTION_TRACKER.md — extraction format that turns meeting notes into assignable tasks. No external tools required. Works with any note-taking app or doc system.