Our Tips for better Meetings
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The 5-Minute Wrap-Up That Saves Everyone’s Sanity
End every meeting with the “3 Rs”: Review decisions, Record owners, Reconfirm next steps. It takes five minutes and prevents hours of follow-up chaos.
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Attention Sprints keep brains in the meeting
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.
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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.