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Meeting Productivity: Plan, Run and Follow Through
2,802 students
Meeting Productivity: Plan, Run and Follow Through
meeting productivity | facilitation | effective meetings | agenda design | time management | 1 on 1 | follow through
Last updated 9/2026
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What you'll learn
- Decide whether a meeting is needed at all, using the decision it would have to produce
- Prepare a session so the first ten minutes are not spent on why everyone is there
- Run a discussion where the quiet people contribute and the loudest one does not decide
- Close with named owners and a record, which is the difference between a meeting and a conversation
- Replace the informing part of a meeting with something written that people actually read
- Run a one-to-one that produces a commitment rather than a status update
- Audit your calendar honestly and see the gap between meeting hours and thinking hours
- Prepare and run a two-day strategy offsite, the hardest meeting format there is
- Learn alongside Mike's 1.6 million students from 185 countries
- Get the author's experience from Preply, Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank
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Course content
13 sections • 38 lectures • 18h 17m total length
Requirements
- A calendar you are unhappy with
- No facilitation training required. Everything starts from the basics
- Willingness to cancel something recurring, which is the hardest exercise here
- English at intermediate level or above, since all lessons are in English
- A week of your real calendar to look at, and a spreadsheet for the audit
Description
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
The most expensive line in most companies is the recurring meeting nobody has questioned since the person who set it up left.
It survives because cancelling it requires someone to take responsibility for cancelling it, and attending it requires nothing.
What is actually wrong with your calendar
Half of what gets discussed could have been written down and read in four minutes. The meeting has eleven people in it because excluding someone felt rude. It was booked for an hour because the calendar defaults to an hour. It ends in warm agreement with no owners, so the same topic returns in three weeks slightly worse. And your own thinking time is whatever is left over, which is why the real work has moved to the evening.
None of this is a discipline problem. It is a design problem, and meetings can be designed.
How the course works
Thirty-six lessons in six parts. Facilitation first: the goal as a decision rather than a topic, choosing who is in the room, holding focus, closing with named owners, handling the participant who talks over everyone, and running it online where attention is even harder to hold.
Then your own calendar, six lessons of it. The audit that shows the difference between what you believe about your week and what it actually contains. Eisenhower and 4D, GTD, time-blocking and the golden hour — the block of deep work that meetings consume first.
Writing instead of meeting, and the one meeting to keep
Then six lessons on communication, which is the part most productivity courses miss. A large share of meetings exist to inform people, and informing is something writing does better. Audience segmentation, message design, channel choice, and measuring whether anything was read — plus the honest exception, because bad news does need a room.
Then the one-to-one, six lessons: the six formats, coaching with GROW, giving criticism that does not land as an attack, and making it standard across a team with an ROI case. It is the meeting most worth protecting and usually the first one cancelled when the week gets busy.
And finally the biggest meeting of the year — the two-day strategy offsite, prepared properly — and the group dynamics that determine how any of these sessions actually behave.
Who is teaching this
Mike, the number one HR instructor on Udemy. More than 1.6 million course enrolments, over 150,000 professionals trained, PHRi and SHRM-CP certified, HRCI representative in more than 10 countries. I built the people function of the unicorn Preply and worked at Wargaming, Alfa-Bank and iDeals. I have also protected recurring meetings long after they stopped being useful, which is how I know the reason is never the calendar.
What is included
Lifetime access to all course materials
Active instructor support in the Q&A section
Udemy Certificate of Completion
Practical assignments and real business cases
A section with additional courses, tools and resources
The exercise everyone postpones
Open your calendar, find one recurring meeting, and write down the decision it produced last time it ran. If you cannot, that is the one to cancel — and you already knew which one it would be before you looked. Enrol now and start the first lesson today.
Who this course is for:
- Managers whose week is meetings and whose actual work happens in the evenings
- Team leads who inherited a set of recurring meetings and have never questioned any of them
- Specialists pulled into calls where their presence changes nothing
- Remote and hybrid workers whose day became a sequence of video calls
- Founders and functional heads deciding what the company's meeting rhythm should be
- Anyone who runs meetings that end warmly and produce nothing
- People about to run a strategy offsite for the first time