course

How to run effective meetings


duration

35 minutes

level

Beginner

Improve meeting facilitation

Lead efficient meetings that have clear goals, keep your attendees actively engaged, and use the Atlassian Playbook to improve meeting success. You’ll also learn how to avoid meeting pitfalls.
After this course, you’ll be able to:
  • Identify typical meeting problems and successes.
  • Determine if you need a meeting.
  • Identify and practice the four principles of an effective meeting.
  • Determine how effective your meeting was.
  • Use Atlassian's best practices to run better meetings.
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6 Lessons in this course

5 minutes
What is an effective meeting?

By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to: - Describe the ten core areas that create bad meetings - Identify the three components of an effective meeting - Differentiate between business outcomes and cultural outcomes, and how they apply to the intent of a meeting


Sections
  • Learn what makes a meeting effective
5 minutes
How to determine if you need a meeting

By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to: - Determine if a meeting is actually needed, based on the problem that needs to be solved - Use async tools to share information instead of scheduling a meeting - Leverage a decision-making tree to improve your organization’s meeting culture


Sections
  • Determine if you need a meeting
  • Download Atlassian's meeting decision tree
5 minutes
How to prepare for a meeting

By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to: - Describe the four principles to an effective meeting - Build a meeting agenda that identifies meeting topics and outcomes - Determine the right people to invite to the meeting - Create an effective meeting invite - Identify the appropriate information-sharing tools to use in the meeting


Sections
  • Prepare for a meeting
10 minutes
How to facilitate a meeting

By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to: - Establish and communicate ground rules to create an inclusive meeting environment - Create participant engagement by assigning a scribe and a timekeeper - Manage the flow of conversation through effective listening and facilitation - Establish an end-of-meeting practice that allows time for questions and review


Sections
  • Facilitate a meeting
  • Try the Inclusive Meetings play
5 minutes
What to do after your meeting ends

By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to: - Determine if your meeting was effective by gathering participant feedback - Inform participants of the meeting outcome by sharing the meeting notes - Use tracking tools to notify participants of action items - Use Atlassian Playbook to determine if you need to change your meeting rituals


Sections
  • Determine how effective your meeting was and follow up
  • Try the Ritual Reset play
5 minutes
Simple tips to run better meetings

By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to: - Use Atlassian's best practices to run better meetings


Sections
  • How do you run better meetings?