From the course: Meeting Facilitation
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Preparation for the meeting
- So what makes a meeting bad? Is it nay-sayers, people constantly texting? Distractions during the meeting time? The reality is, a meeting is made successful or unsuccessful well before it even starts. With creating a solid agenda and setting the pre-work. Agendas and pre-work gives set standards and expectations. This gives the team and the meetings structure and reduces uncertainty. We're tapping into a little science here. You see, humans crave certainty. Uncertainty, especially about the future creates a strong alert response in your limbic system. Think fight or flight. Well-structured meetings restore certainty and thus restore a sense of control in your team. So let's talk about these magical agendas and pre-work that are going to help us so much. The agenda is driven by a member of the team. There are four key considerations, the topics and topic owner. Here, you want to ask which topics are important, why they're important, and who on the team is responsible for doing what?…
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