Just-in-Time Meeting Skills
Season 1
What if you have a meeting tomorrow and have absolutely no idea what to do? This season, host Lauren Green breaks down all the essential skills you need to facilitate a successful meeting from start to finish.
Episode 1
Just-in-Time Meeting Skills
What if you have a meeting tomorrow and have absolutely no idea what to do? This season, host Lauren Green breaks down all the essential skills you need to facilitate a successful meeting from start to finish. This episode breaks down what to expect from this season. Get ready to make your meetings work.
Episode 2
Should We Meet?
No, your meeting could not have been an email. There's a reason that meeting is on your calendar, and there are changes that can make meetings suck less and even worthwhile. In this episode, we’ll discuss all the reasons why we meet and the scenarios when it makes sense not to.
Episode 3
Prepping for a Meeting
Successful meetings have a design. If you’re showing up without a plan and wondering why it’s not working, it’s time to make a change. By the end of this episode, you’ll know who needs to be a part of planning, why you are meeting, and the 10 questions you need to answer to start your outline.
Episode 4
Outlining a Meeting
You’ve decided to meet, you’ve started to prep, and now it’s time to outline your meeting. In this episode, we’ll take you through the steps of creating an outline—choosing a medium, establishing outcomes, creating flow, timing and energy shifts, and how to open and close the meeting.
Episode 5
How to Write a Facilitation Guide
After you’ve prepped for your meeting and outlined your agenda, it’s time to create a facilitation guide: a detailed version of your agenda with talking points, reflection questions, tech host instructions, and more. Plus, we discuss the uses of tools like affinity clustering and breakouts to ensure a smooth and productive meeting.
Episode 6
When In Doubt, Open Space
No plan for your meeting? Participants resisting your agenda at every turn? Open Space is your friend. Open Space Technology is a meeting method that ensures that topics that the participants care about the most are covered. In this episode, learn how to use Open Space to collaboratively plan your agenda with participants.
Episode 7
Final Meeting Prep Steps
Before you kick off your meeting, there are some important final preparations you should make to ensure it runs smoothly. It’s time to connect with co-planners, collect your materials, communicate with participants, and more.
Episode 8
Kicking Off a Meeting
How you kick off a meeting and each activity is critical to the success of every meeting. This episode teaches you how to start a meeting with strength and transition into new activities and topics with ease. Plus, a focused look at open-ended questions.
Episode 9
Conflict and Time Management in Meetings
No matter how detailed your outline or how much you prepped, you can never guarantee a meeting will go exactly as planned. This episode includes tips for navigating conflict, managing time, and ensuring inclusion during your meeting.
Episode 10
Closing a Meeting and Follow-up
Once you’ve completed your agenda, all that’s left is to wrap it in a bow. In this last episode of This Meeting Suck Season 1, we’ll walk you through how to close the conversation, recap next steps, and send participants on their way.
Episode 10
Closing a Meeting and Follow-up
Once you’ve completed your agenda, all that’s left is to wrap it in a bow. In this last episode of This Meeting Suck Season 1, we’ll walk you through how to close the conversation, recap next steps, and send participants on their way.
Episode 10
Closing a Meeting and Follow-up
Once you’ve completed your agenda, all that’s left is to wrap it in a bow. In this last episode of This Meeting Suck Season 1, we’ll walk you through how to close the conversation, recap next steps, and send participants on their way.
Episode 10
Closing a Meeting and Follow-up
Once you’ve completed your agenda, all that’s left is to wrap it in a bow. In this last episode of This Meeting Suck Season 1, we’ll walk you through how to close the conversation, recap next steps, and send participants on their way.
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You’ve done the prep, you’ve gone through your agenda; now, all that’s left is to wrap things up in a bow. In this last episode of This Meeting Suck season one, we’ll walk you through closing the conversation, recapping next steps and sending participants on their way.
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Season 1 Playbook
We get it. Who has time to listen to an entire podcast season? Lucky for you, each season of This Meeting Sucks comes with a playbook of all the key tools and tips right at your fingertips.
Each chapter includes content from the podcast, resources from the season, and a visual summary of each episode linked together in one convenient PDF.
Season 2
Meet Smarter, Not Longer
For all the managers out there, this season is all about improving your everyday meetings, enabling your team to work more effectively and improve your well-being.
Season 3
A Participant’s Guide to
Un-sucking Your Meetings
Most of us spend more time in meetings as a participant than as the leader or facilitator, but that doesn’t mean we can’t play a role in improving our meetings.
Season 4
Meet Your Way to a High-Performing Team
Discover our agendas and templates for improving communication, building relationships, and creating a high-performance culture for success.