Describe a few of the many reasons why an agenda can be an effective decision aid.

An agenda:establishes the issues that will be discussed;Depending on how the issues are worded,it can also define how each issue is discussed;It can define the order in which issues are discussed;It can be used to introduce process issues (decision rules,discussion norms,member roles,discussion dynamics),as well as substantive issues,simply by including them.And,an agenda can assign time limits to various items,thereby indicating the importance of the different issues.