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Meetings That Produce Progress

Meetings consume valuable time. Too often, they have too little purpose, too much content, unclear participation and weak endings. We help managers, project groups and teams design and host meetings that serve a clear purpose and produce progress.

When this is useful

Give us a call when meetings in your organisation are:

Too long

Too frequent

Low in energy

Heavy on updates and light on decisions

Dominated by a few voices

Unclear about purpose

Poor at turning discussion into action

Repeating the same conversations

Creating frustration rather than progress

Leaving people unsure what happens next

What we help people do

We help people make practical choices before, during and after the meeting. That may include:
Deciding whether a meeting is needed
Writing a clearer purpose
Inviting the right people
Shaping the agenda around outcomes
Replacing updates with useful working time
Using shorter turns
Improving participation
Benefitting from disagreement
Separating discussion from decision
Ending with clear action, ownership and follow-up

Design better meetings

A good meeting may need to inform, decide, explore, generate ideas, test assumptions, resolve tension, build commitment or coordinate action.

Each purpose needs a different design. When the purpose is clearer, meetings get shorter, livelier and more useful.

What people leave with

Clearer criteria for when to meet

Better agendas

More useful participation

Practical hosting techniques

Ways to keep meetings moving

Stronger endings

Clearer action and ownership

New meeting habits to test immediately

Related Material

How can we transform meetings from deadly dull to valuable and vibrant?

A short article on designing and hosting meetings, workshops and conferences that engage people and produce useful results.

Make your meetings worthwhile

Tell us which meetings matter, which ones frustrate people and what useful progress would look like.