Services

Meeting Coaching

No one teaches us how to participate in a meeting, let alone lead one. As a result, it’s normal for meetings to lack clear outcomes, not follow a structured agenda, allow for a few people to dominate, and end without clear next steps.

Better meetings create better teams that achieve sustainable results and healthy work cultures. It’s imperative that we commit to making meeting skills a core competency for professionals. How you meet determines how well your team, organization or initiative succeeds in achieving its mission. 

Our meeting coaches will help you… 

  • Prepare your team for effective day-to-day and week-to-week meetings.

  • Equip leaders to empower their teams and lead through complexity and chaos.

  • Maximize the potential of your team to do their best work.

  • Work with you to implement a new level of meeting maturity.

Types of Meeting Coaching

We can structure meeting coaching as needed or programmatically as a three- or six-month development plan. Sessions are typically 60 to 90 minutes in length, and we can also do group coaching sessions for up to five members at a time.

Upcoming Event

If you want support planning an upcoming event, we will…

  • Meet with you and/or your team to discuss your desired outcomes.

  • Outline your agenda and a menu of activity options.

  • Work with you to choose activities that support achieving your outcomes.

  • Provide facilitation training, create your materials list, design meeting materials and draft communications, as it’s helpful.

Individual or Team Training

If you’re looking to improve your or your team’s meeting skills, we will…

  • Meet with you and/or your team to identify areas of improvement in your meetings.

  • Customize an individual and/or team training program that includes meeting fundamentals and approaches aligned with your unique needs.

  • Core Meeting Skills
    ● How to design an inclusive, engaging and productive agenda
    ● Improving team meetings and project management
    ● Alternative conference formats (to replace boring panel discussions)

    Activities and Tools
    ● Simple, easy to facilitate collaboration activities
    ● Design thinking and innovation activities
    ● Strategic planning activities
    ● Energizers (i.e. icebreakers)
    ● Facilitating with visuals and designing meeting worksheets and templates
    ● Instructional design for adult, experiential learning

    Meeting Management
    ● Setting meeting agreements
    ● Speaking confidently and developing presence
    ● Managing conflict and group dynamics (and overcoming conflict resistance)
    ● Working with tricky groups (like boards or planning teams)
    ● Meeting support roles: tech hosting, notetaking, breakout facilitation
    ● Virtual and/or hybrid meeting/workshop tips

Team and Organization Meeting Maturity

If you’re looking to mature your meeting practices for your team or organization, we will…

  • Gather feedback on the current state of your meetings.

  • Diagnose where the team or organization is in their meeting maturity.

  • Offer experience-backed recommendations for improving meetings.

  • Work with you to implement a new level of meeting maturity.

Testimonials

  • "Lauren has a unique talent to provide coaching to professionals in learning and development. She provided me space to practice my facilitation skills, brainstorm how to design learning materials, and asked thought-provoking questions that allowed me to enhance my confidence and delivery."

    COACHING CLIENT

  • "Lauren has a treasure chest of resources and ideas that can help improve your performance whether it is producing a final product, public speaking, facilitation or so many other things. She is an incredible expert in facilitation and a remarkable coach."

    COACHING CLIENT

Ready to get started?

To start the conversation or learn more about how we can support your meeting or project, reach out on our contact page. We can help identify the right service for you and how we can best support your team.