Meetings That Produce Results
Poor communication can sink meetings and limit results. Learn how to make meetings count to maximize engagement and ROI.
How It Works
This means less results from the meetings themselves and wasted time that could be used in productive work. No wonder employees and managers resent using time at meetings. Billions of dollars are wasted every year as a result of ineffective meetings.
The Experience
Implementing a proven methodology and effective behaviors are the key components for your meetings to produce results. Meetings that Produce Results uses direct experiences to help participants embrace a new approach to managing meetings. Beginning with the enormously successful XYZ agenda structure, teams learn practical techniques and an organizing framework that ensure successful interactions and eliminate wasted time.
Why It Matters
Full of applications and opportunities for feedback, this program illustrates the kind of listening and speech patterns that ensure focused attention and productive disagreement. Participants learn how to plan, execute and debrief meetings so that time is well spent and conversations lead to results.
What Your Team Takes Away
Create helpful agendas to produce meaningful outcomes in specified times
Open meetings POWerfully to quickly engage participants
Learn how to move conversations forward to expected results
Deal with resistance to reduce conflicts, derailments, and avoid straying off topic
Learn when to move on versus discuss in-depth
Choose the “right” meeting frequency for your team
Frequently Asked Questions
- Why do my team meetings never produce actionable outcomes?
- Most meetings drift because no one names the outcome up front. People talk, but nothing gets decided or owned. Research shows over half of meeting time is wasted. The fix is simple. Open the meeting with a clear purpose. Use an agenda that names the result you want. Move the conversation toward a decision, then capture who does what by when. When every meeting ends with owned actions, results follow. Meetings That Produce Results gives your team that framework and the practice to use it.
- What makes a meeting actually produce results?
- Three things. A purpose everyone sees before they walk in. A structure that keeps the group on one track and surfaces honest disagreement early. And a close that turns talk into owned actions with dates. Your team practices each part on real meetings, so the new habits stick. Participants leave able to plan, run, and debrief a meeting that ends with clear next steps.
- How do we stop wasting time in team meetings?
- Start by cutting meetings that have no clear purpose. For the ones that matter, give each a short agenda that names the outcome and the time. Open with energy, keep one conversation at a time, and decide before you move on. Pick the right meeting frequency for your team instead of defaulting to weekly. Small changes here return hours every week and get better results from the time you do spend together.
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