We'll equip you to drive your organization towards leaner and more effective meetings
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What happens in meetings serves as a barometer of a company's leadership, strategy, and culture - so what do your meetings say about your company?
Teams frequently over-rely on meetings as their primary collaboration tool for want of a better standard for judging when something should be a meeting. Compounding this problem, the meetings that should be a good use of time are often frequently ruined by a lack of planning, design and focus.
We'll help you identify your most valuable meetings, allowing you to clear the decks of low-impact gatherings. We'll help you design focused meetings with clear outcomes. We'll help you lead productive, engaging, inclusive meetings that surface the best possible version of the conversation.
Our workshop is composed of three core sections to help you select, design and deliver effective meetings. It includes a comprehensive set of custom-built workbooks and tools to help support ongoing changes. It concludes with a group working session to map out the biggest challenges / opportunities around meetings in your organization. You'll work together to formulate action plans to address those areas.
The workshop is particularly suited to professionals in positions where leading gatherings, workshops or meetings is a critical part of their role. More broadly, it's also proven valuable for anyone who is eager to expand their facilitation skill-set (project managers, product managers, L&D professionals etc).
Deliberately Selected Meetings
We often reach for meetings too quickly out of habit. They feel like the easiest way to collaborate and yet the proliferation of meetings in companies can bring progress to a standstill. We'll help you and your team be more deliberate and careful about choosing when to gather.
Thoughtfully Designed Meetings
Assuming you do everything you can to scale back the meeting load in the company, you're still going to be left with some meetings that are valuable. How do you make them as effective as possible? We'll help you go from theories and creative ideas to practical, effective action plans.
Skillfully Delivered Meetings
Once you've deliberately selected and thoughtfully designed your meetings, you need to make sure the delivery is inclusive and on-point; providing great collaboration opportunities and hitting outcomes. Importantly, you need to know how to navigate effectively when things go off track. We'll help you bring your A-game.
This workshop is a big time saver! It will help you eliminate redundant meetings on your calendar and free up time to do meaningful work. It was great to build the shared understanding that 'less is more' regarding the value and cost of meetings, especially given our organization's challenge with too many large group meetings. The program also really helps in ensuring meetings are useful, actionable, and have a clear purpose.
Teresa L. - Head of Global Cloud Alliances - StreamSets
I loved the practical side of this training - the exercises delivered in the context of our current meeting problems. The last exercise, in particular, was outstanding - where we did the meeting health check and then built an action plan to make changes. It was also valuable to learn about RACI and the ways to get a well-defined, single purpose for a meeting. The coaching & facilitation were outstanding.
Jorge J. - Director of Creative Engineering - Striking Distance Studios
I realise so many of our meetings feel less productive when viewed through the lens of this training. Now we will improve our productivity and lessen the number of meetings. The subject material was great and covered all the important areas with practical examples. The cost analysis is something that really got me thinking, along with the concept of RACI applied to meetings. You will learn how to better prepare for meetings and how to get people more engaged.
Steve D. - VP of Solutions Architecture - Upsolver
In addition to offering dedicated workshops and programs for teams, we hold regular sessions that are open to individuals.
If you'd be interested in participating as an individual, let us know...
Simple shifts in our routine patterns of interaction make it possible for everyone to be included, engaged, and unleashed in solving problems, driving innovation, and achieving extraordinary outcomes
Henry Lipmanowicz and Keith McCandless
