Design as a discipline is applied to a wide range of professional activities, but rarely to meetings. Poor design, or no design, wastes time and money, and demoralizes people. We define meeting design as the purposeful act of creating end-to-end meeting experiences from well-defined objectives to required outcomes.
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Meeting Design - Purpose
- To explore the Meeting Design Framework and consider its use to structure the meeting design process.
Meeting Design - Objectives
- To introduce the core components of meetings design, and their application.
- To provide the framework, techniques, and tools for a pragmatic approach to meeting design.
Meeting Design - Outcomes
- Test the assumption that a meeting is needed, and to prove, or disprove, that assumption.
- Apply the 6Ps of meeting design, use the 3 design canvases, and the 9 building blocks of meeting design to create better meeting experiences for everyone, when a meeting is the correct course of action.
- Work with the end in mind as a mechanism for defining why a meeting is needed, what will be achieved, and how value will be delivered.
- Make meeting cost calculation a standard meeting leader practice for any meeting.
- Establish your meeting baseline and examine the opportunity for improved meeting maturity.