What would your week look like if every meeting first had to earn the right to exist?
Many meetings are held out of habit, not need, and you can feel it in the room. This module gives you the preparation steps that make all the difference: check that there’s a decision to make, invite only those who contribute, set a tight time limit, and assign roles. Your meetings will be fewer, shorter, and focused on decisions.
~20 min at your own paceKey skill: Organizing and Running MeetingsAvailable in FR + ENNo prerequisites
What you’ll take away
- the three-question test to apply to any meeting before you organize it
- a way to write an appealing invitation that sets out participants’ roles
- three practices that give remote participants as much weight as those in the room
Who it’s for
Anyone who wants useful meetings, whether they organize them, contribute to them, or choose to decline them.
Learning objectives
- Decide whether a meeting is needed using the three-question test and the phrase “successful if…”.
- Word the goal with an action verb (decide, resolve, choose between options), not a vague “update”.
- Build a small invitation list around the value people bring, and exercise your right to decline.
- Plan how the meeting will run: send the agenda 24 hours ahead, keep time deliberately tight, assign roles, and treat remote participants fairly.
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.
