Track the Effectiveness of Your Meetings and Make Them More Productive

Teamwork & CooperationManagement & LeadershipManagers≈ 10 min

Key skill: Meeting facilitation

Summary

Bring in a supervisor (a consultant, coach, manager, or colleague skilled at facilitation) to observe your meetings as you run them, and provide a quantitative and qualitative report pinpointing what to improve.

Target audience

Managers or project leads who run meetings.

Learning objectives

Assess the power of your meetings, both quantitatively and qualitatively.
Observe the following key points: how time is structured, participants' behaviors and attitudes, the nature of the exchanges, the tools used, and everyone's roles.
Use our assessment grid to enter a cycle of continuous improvement for your meetings.
Understand that investing in expert supervision of your meetings will pay for itself many times over

Module outline

ArticlesAn interactive image covering common meeting problems: running over time, lack of productivity, underused tools, and facilitation being monopolized · Calculating the cost of meetings and the ROI of supervision · The role of an expert meeting-facilitation consultant
Expert videoA supervisor analyzes the team's meeting processes and suggests areas for improvement
AnchoringA quiz and true/false questions to deepen your understanding and reinforce what you've learned
Memo cardDownloadable memo-coaching card: the key takeaways from the expert video
CommitmentConcrete examples to help you define your own commitment

Models & methods

Supervision by an observer (consultant, coach, manager, or colleague); quantitative and qualitative reporting; delegated time-keeper and scribe roles.