Running Effective Meetings
How to make every meeting earn its cost: deciding when not to meet, agenda discipline, clear roles, timeboxing, capturing decisions and actions with owners, and hybrid/remote etiquette. For anyone who calls or chairs meetings in industrial and energy organisations.
50m
Total time
4
Competency levels
12
Lessons
What you'll learn
- Explain the real cost of meetings and decide when an async alternative serves better
- Define a clear purpose and build a disciplined, outcome-based agenda
- Assign and use the chair, timekeeper and note-taker roles effectively
- Apply timeboxing and a parking lot to keep discussions on track
- Capture decisions and actions with named owners and due dates, and follow them up
- Run hybrid and remote meetings where every participant can contribute equally
Curriculum
Progress through each competency level in order.
1
Awareness
- 2mThe Real Cost of Meetings — and When Not to MeetKnowledge
- 2mPurpose and Agenda DisciplineKnowledge
- 7mAwareness Check: Cost, Purpose and AgendasAssessment
2
Knowledge
- 3mMeeting Roles: Chair, Timekeeper, Note-TakerKnowledge
- 2mTimeboxing and the Parking LotKnowledge
- 8mKnowledge Check: Roles, Timeboxes and Parking LotsAssessment
3
Skill
- 3mCapturing Decisions and Actions That Actually HappenKnowledge
- 3mAssignment: Plan and Chair a Working MeetingAssignment
- 7mSkill Check: Decisions, Actions and Follow-ThroughAssessment
4
Mastery
- 3mHybrid and Remote Meetings, and Fixing a Meeting CultureKnowledge
- 3mAssignment: Audit and Reset a Meeting PortfolioAssignment
- 7mMastery Check: Distributed Meetings and Meeting CultureAssessment
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