Rotate the facilitator and other meeting roles regularly. It keeps meetings fresh, builds confidence, and turns attendees into co-owners.

Break your meeting into attention sprints. Every 7–10 minutes, switch gears by changing speaker, invite reactions, use a poll, etc. This helps reset attention.

Use a Meeting Cost Clock to visualize that meetings are not free. Seeing the cost grow with each minute can create a sense of urgency and discourage distracting conversations.

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.

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.