To design an effective meeting you need to know what type of meeting you are planning for, and why. There are 6 common workplace meeting types which can be used individually, or in combination. These 6 types cover all of the meetings you are likely to lead or participate in.
Meeting Types - Purpose
- To explore the Meeting Design Framework and consider its use to structure the meeting design process.
Meeting Types - Objectives
- To introduce the concept of meeting types versus meeting labels.
- To translate meeting labels into the necessary activities to determine the required meeting types.
- To consider where meetings may be eradicated completely, or in-meeting time saved, by altering the approach for certain meeting types.
Meeting Types - Outcomes
- Identify the activities required to achieve the meeting’s objectives, and to deliver the required outcomes, to inform how you will select and sequence the appropriate meeting types.
- Recognise the techniques and tools available to support specific meeting types.
- Apply different, and improved, information sharing techniques to prepare participants to contribute fully and to reduce, or remove, the in-meeting time.
- Understand the need to create safe, non-judgemental, environments that are inclusive for all participants, whatever the meeting type.
- Align your individual meeting type, or combination of meeting types, to the design principles within the pre-meeting, in-meeting, and post meeting design canvases.