Host Productive and Creative Meetings in 7 Steps

Teamwork & CooperationChange & AdaptationAll employees≈ 20 min

Key skill: Meeting facilitation

Summary

A seven-step canvas for facilitating a creative meeting, from presenting the topic to the action plan, guiding the divergent and convergent phases to turn your team's ideas into concrete decisions.

Target audience

Anyone who facilitates or takes part in meetings.

Learning objectives

Overcome your fear of facilitating creative, innovative meetings.
Explain the purpose of the session in step 1.
Set the ground rules for creativity in step 2.
Break the ice with a game in step 3.

Module outline

StorytellingA creative session on optimizing technology and AI for 2030, blending riddles, puzzles, and brainstorming
ArticlesDefining a creative meeting, and what you actually create there
Expert videoAn overview of the 7 steps: presenting the topic, setting the rules, breaking the ice, creative warm-up, divergent phase, convergent phase, and turning ideas into action
AnchoringQuiz and True/False questions to dig deeper into the topic and anchor what you've learned
Memo cardDownloadable memo card: the key points from the expert video
CommitmentConcrete examples to help you define your own commitment
BonusA selection of videos to go further (TED, YouTube)

Models & methods

The 7-step canvas; icebreakers; creative warm-ups; divergent and convergent phases; visual brainstorming.

Research-based

Steps inspired by the book "Animer une séance de créativité" ("Facilitating a Creativity Session") by Médéric Gillet and Thibault de Maillard; an icebreaker sourced from Wikipedia.