A pointless meeting or a lever for performance? It all depends on what you truly expect from it.
Meetings are essential... when they're well prepared and well run. Don't cancel your meetings — turn them into a lever for cohesion, collective intelligence, ownership, and performance.
15 min at your own paceAvailable in FR + ENNo prerequisites
You will walk away with
- criteria for deciding whether a meeting is truly necessary
- the 20% rule for top-down information, in favour of co-construction
- the unique benefits of meetings: cohesion, clarity, ownership
Target audience
Anyone who leads or takes part in meetings.
Learning objectives
- Use meetings, in person or virtual, as levers for cohesion and performance.
- Assess whether a meeting is the best way to boost motivation and performance, or whether another channel would serve better
- Stop postponing or cancelling essential meetings, team meetings especially
- Save time and avoid oversights by sharing information intelligently in meetings
Module outline
- Articles
- The advantages of meetings versus email/chat/phone
- Informing or co-constructing
- Expert video“The Benefits of a Meeting”4'31An introduction to meetings as levers for cohesion, collective intelligence, and performance, with an analysis of meeting goals and benefits
- AnchoringA quiz and True/False questions to explore the topic further and anchor what you've learned
- Memo cardA downloadable memo card: the key takeaways from the expert video
- CommitmentConcrete examples to help you define your own commitment
