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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

  • The Real Cost of Meetings — and When Not to Meet
    Knowledge
    2m
  • Purpose and Agenda Discipline
    Knowledge
    2m
  • Awareness Check: Cost, Purpose and Agendas
    Assessment
    7m
2

Knowledge

  • Meeting Roles: Chair, Timekeeper, Note-Taker
    Knowledge
    3m
  • Timeboxing and the Parking Lot
    Knowledge
    2m
  • Knowledge Check: Roles, Timeboxes and Parking Lots
    Assessment
    8m
3

Skill

  • Capturing Decisions and Actions That Actually Happen
    Knowledge
    3m
  • Assignment: Plan and Chair a Working Meeting
    Assignment
    3m
  • Skill Check: Decisions, Actions and Follow-Through
    Assessment
    7m
4

Mastery

  • Hybrid and Remote Meetings, and Fixing a Meeting Culture
    Knowledge
    3m
  • Assignment: Audit and Reset a Meeting Portfolio
    Assignment
    3m
  • Mastery Check: Distributed Meetings and Meeting Culture
    Assessment
    7m

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