What three things would you recommend to your co-worker to help run better meetings?

[Graham Moody]

1. Be clear on your intent behind the meeting - this helps drive objectives, whether a meeting is need, who should attend and the agenda etc

2. Actively facilitate - keep topics and discussion to time and keep it inclusive

3. Follow up on actions to drive accountability

[Martha Arjona]

1. Preparation is key. What is the goal for your meeting? What are you trying to solve?

2. Share an agenda outlining the topics, who is leading that section and the time. 

3. Ensure you introduce inclusive practices in your meeting to create and maintain the engagement. 

[Ethan Andrews]

1. Ask yourself whether this even needs to be a meeting in the first place? Could it be an email, or some other form of collaboration?

2. If a meeting is the best format for this interaction, set an agenda with items for discussion and a schedule to keep these discussions on track.

3. Leave space at the end of the meeting to wrap up and review. Ask was this meeting effective? Is another meeting required? Can we keep each other accountable from here on out with emails?

[Heidi Simoniuk]

1. Prepare meeting goals / set agenda

2. Start the meeting 5 minutes late to give people time

3. Use timeboxes and parking lot to ensure topics are covered

[Alan Fong]

1. Set up a flow to determine do we need a meeting and adheres to it.
2. If meeting is inevitable, be clear and concise on the agenda of the meeting. What are the topics that we are gonna discuss? What are we hoping to achieve with the meeting? Who needs to be there?
3. Turn the topics into timeboxes, stick to the timeboxes.

[Stacy Abrams]

1. Start with the end in mind (state your goals for the meeting).
2. Think about how each attendee can benefit from the meeting, and what they can contribute.
3. Make attendance optional

[Renae Hernandez]

1) Deciding if there does need to be a meeting and if so taking into account who to invite.

2) Have an agenda and be mindful of topics and time.

3) At the end create a rating scale, be open to receiving honest feedback, and do not take feedback personally and punish participants if the comments are not all positive.

[Mohammed Alam]

1. Send out Agenda before start of the meeting

2. Be clear 

3. Create meeting notes

[Nekeya Rashid-Kforce]

1. Create an agenda (30/60 minutes divided into time allocated slots for specific topics and team members that will be speaking)

2. Allow for 3- 5 minutes to allow members to join and and facilitate meeting to make sure doesn't derail from topic or spend too much time on one topic.

3. Keep team members engaged and follow up after closing the meeting.

[venu madhav]

1. After checking if the meeting is necessary, set an agenda.

2. Share the agenda with the team, remember to time box each item. Mail the team marking them as optional and not mandatory.

3.  Any points not in the agenda, move them to the parking lot. Once the meeting is done, send minutes to the team for follow up. 

[jonathan.funcke]

1.  Identify the key objectives for the discussion.
2.  Structure the meeting for best effectiveness.
3.  Establish rules of engagement to stay on topic & time!

[Ahmed Elgebali]

1- That the meeting has already discussed an important matter.
2- To allow those present to participate.
3- I present it at the end of the meeting with a summary of what was discussed.

[Gaurav Sharma]

1. Identify the purpose of the meeting and respective stakeholders

2. Collaborate with all stakeholders as per their requirement in the meeting

3. Prepare the outcome of the meeting and share with everyone, schedule of meeting should be based on meeting agenda and shouldn't be too long

[Katie Bree]

1) Create meeting agenda and topics to cover

2) remain on topic and notate topics to put into the "parking lot"

3) send out meeting notes after completion of meeting

[G subramanyam]

1) Have a clear meeting agenda mentioned in the invite email.

2) Know the participants and invite them after carefully looking their schedules and reaching 1:1 on chat window. This helps them to join.

3) In the meeting, create action items per the participant and their action. This helps meeting attendees know the action owner and next plan of action.

[Sara Tucker]

1. Help create a working culture of offline collaboration
   • Promote the use of confluence and miro boards in the meetings you do have and work towards leveraging those in future
2. Ensure you have the right audience so you don't end up needing to schedule another meeting as a follow up
3. Promote a culture of no meeting days or no meeting timeboxes to allow people to manage their focus time

[Fabio Racobaldo _Herzum_]

1. Determine if the meeting is necessary to achieve your golas
2. Define and share a clear agenda
3. Involve righ people 

[Mary J Pecci]

1.  Taking the time to deliver a well-crafted agenda in advance is important, because it will provide "optional" attendees with WIFM*

2.  The group understands the desired outcome / goal of the meeting

3. Timely follow-up and management of action items provides important feedback

Can't wait to do a "Ritual Reset" -- Great idea!

[Alex Barnaba]

1. Stick to the agenda (at least 80% of the time of the meeting)

2. If it's a recurring event check if you have enough material for the meeting, sometimes maybe it's better to skip to the next ocurrence

3. Think like an intensive training. You have 5 - 15 minutes of warm-up, 45 minutes of strong training and then the stretching and relax at the end when you catch your breath and think about what you have accomplished

[Lorena Orellana]

1. Clear objective, the goal of the meeting 

2. Right people, attendees are clear on that goal

3. Use facilitating tools to keep participants engaged

[Sophia Choi]

1. Set an agenda to clearly define desired outcomes of the meeting

2. Delegate note-taker to follow the discussion items

3. Track prior and current action items to increase accountability 

[Faith]

1. Decide if you really need a meeting
2. Create an agenda with specific goals, roles, and times
3. Invite the key players to the meeting - using the "optional attendee" so that the individuals have the choice of attending.

[Sibel Avcı Sehlikoglu]

1- Be well prepared before the meeting 

2-Be sure that all of the invitees are really needed.

3-After meeting , send meeting notes and decisions 

[Olasumbo Olubiyi]

1. Be intentional about the Goal of the meeting and the intended outcomes
2. Plan the best approach to achieving the meeting objective 
3. Strick a good balance between business and culture by engaging the right people for the meeting 

[Ian Turvey]

1. Think - is a meeting the most effective way of communicating what you want to communuicate?

2. Define the shell around the meeting - intent, purpose, objective, time bound, summary, follow up

3. Never send a 'agenda tbc' placeholder!!