Our Tips for better Meetings
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The reason meetings are valuable is because people think differently
Create awareness for and encourage attendees to embrace different mental models. Disagreement can lead to better solutions.
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Don’t facilitate if you’re too invested in the outcome
Find someone neutral to facilitate your meeting if you’re deeply invested in the outcome so that your biases don’t influence the flow of the conversation.
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Go One on One before going Big
Meet individually with key people or small groups beforehand and bring the insights from these meetings into the larger session.
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Agenda items as questions trigger deeper thinking in attendees
Frame your agenda items as questions. When attendees see questions, they begin considering answers, leading to faster and deeper engagement.
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1,2,4,All – large groups can align quickly with this technique
Use the 1-2-4-All technique to quickly achieve alignment in large meetings. Based on the divide & conquer principle, alignment is created in steps starting with a group of two.