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Questions: Make Meetings Work




This 7 Ideas Coach session provides you with questions to assess how your meetings are doing. Your answers should inform you about where you need to use your influence to improve your meetings.

Meta Question:
Are meeting where real work takes place, or something that keeps people from getting work done?

  1. Do people regularly use basic skills and best practices in meetings? *see below
  2. Is the purpose of a meeting explicit? click here for resource article, AAA Meetings
  3. Is the majority of meeting time spent with a retrospective focus or a prospective focus?
  4. Are your meetings rich with discussion, dialogue, and debate?
  5. What are unspoken meeting norms, what happens when someone wants to change them?
  6. Are you intentional about shaping the emotional tone of meetings?
  7. Can the group operate in both problem-solving and possibility-thinking modes? click here for resource article, Problem or Possibility?

* meeting basics...
  • agendas?
  • adherence to time schedules?
  • respectful communication?
  • engaging presentations?
  • effective facilitation?
  • minutes or records of meeting decisions?
  • relevant material and information is handy?

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