Effective Meeting Leadership

In this lesson, you'll learn how to evaluate each meeting on your schedule to determine if it is needed, or if you might use a 'meeting alternative' instead. We will walk through a real-world example showing you how a week's meeting schedule is reduced by over 50% using this principle.

Here, you'll be encouraged to apply this principle right away, so you can free up your calendar, gain more time back, and use that time to practice and apply the remaining principles in this course.

In this lesson, you will learn how to design a clear objective statement for your meeting, then build an action-oriented agenda that drives to that outcome. You will also learn how to conduct further analysis to ensure the agenda has all the activities and exercises needed to achieve the objective.

In this lesson, you will learn how to use a tool called the Impact-Interest Grid to evaluate potential meeting attendees. This helps you be more selective about inviting only the right people so your meeting stays focused and productive.

In this lesson, you learn how to set up your meeting for success by conducting quick 2-minute previews with several attendees to gain early insights. You learn how to use these insights to refine your objective and agenda activities and prepare visual aids. You also learn how to go even further with visualizing how the meeting will unfold, so you can anticipate key questions, potential barriers, or other challenges and be prepared with facilitation strategies to keep the meeting on track.

Here, you learn about how to shift from a passive to an active facilitation mode. You will learn about some of the more common ineffective behaviors that meeting attendees can conduct and effective strategies for mitigating their impact. We provide you with additional tools to help keep the group focused so you are sure to achieve the meeting objective.