Stop carrying it all alone: distribute the roles, and your meetings will run themselves.
Distribute roles and responsibilities among meeting participants, for optimal time management, constructive listening, and better decision-making.
20 min at your own paceAvailable in FR + ENNo prerequisites
You will walk away with
- the delegated roles — timekeeper, scribe, decision-pusher, and floor manager
- a method for empowering participants instead of carrying everything alone
- rotation rules for cycling through roles and balancing facilitation
Target audience
Managers or project leads who facilitate meetings.
Learning objectives
- Delegate roles and responsibilities in meetings to avoid overloading a single facilitator.
- Empower participants so they don't sit back as spectators, expecting everything from the facilitator-manager-teacher.
- Take away the facilitator's outsized power to direct, frame, and decide alone on behalf of the team.
- Distribute and rotate the different delegated roles: timekeeper, scribe, decision-pusher, floor manager, logistics lead, host, expert, and more.
Module outline
- Storytelling“Peter, Alone Against Everyone”2'04A comparison between two managers, Sylvia and Peter, showing the importance of collaboration and distributing responsibilities
- Articles
- Less centralized meetings
- Distributing roles
- The different delegated roles and their responsibilities
- Expert video“Don't Facilitate Meetings Alone: Delegate”8'34An overview of the different delegated roles: timekeeper, scribe, decision-pusher, floor manager, expert, and more
- 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
