“All right, let’s start”: what if those four words were the reason your meetings stall?
Attention in a meeting isn’t a straight line: it rises, falls, and fades around the twentieth minute, unless something revives it. A clear direction from the first sentence, a rhythm that breaks monotony, and fairly shared speaking time: simple moves that change everything. This module teaches them one by one.
~20 min at your own paceKey skill: Organizing and Running MeetingsAvailable in FR + ENNo prerequisites
What you’ll take away
- the ten-minute rule: anyone silent early on stays silent
- Parkinson’s law: a meeting fills all the time you give it
- the counterintuitive tip for treating onsite and remote people equally
Who it’s for
Anyone who runs meetings, in person or hybrid, and wants participants engaged from start to finish.
Learning objectives
- Open a meeting in five minutes with a clear direction and get everyone talking early.
- Sustain the group’s energy with rhythm, rephrasing, and prompting to counter disengagement.
- Adopt the facilitator stance and delegate roles (time, decisions, speaking turns) to focus on the substance.
- Balance speaking time among talkers, those who interrupt, and quiet ones, and truly include remote participants.
How does this module work?
The steps of the Adaptive module.
- Self-assessmentOn nine dimensions, to gauge current habits and guide the practice.
- Expert videoA ~10 min video with three pauses for reflection.
- Practice scenariosThe first two scenarios chosen from the self-assessment, then sixteen more, optional. Every answer gets feedback: what it leads to, and one way to improve.
- Dated commitmentOne action to try, written by the learner or chosen from the suggestions.
- Memo to downloadKey takeaways, questions, commitment, personal notes, and checklists.
Duration: ~20 min. Excluding bonus practice scenarios and optional in-depth content.
