Introduction

Estimated time: 16 minutes

Overview

Questions

• How do you run effective and inclusive meetings to progress your collaborative project?

Objectives

• Prepare an agenda for a meeting
• Assign roles to meeting participants and set expectations for meeting culture
• Enable good note taking
• Facilitate inclusive discussions that enable everyone to participate
• Identify and mitigate your own disruptive behaviours and those of other meeting participants
• Guide meeting participants in effective decision-making
• Prevent discussions from diverging away from the intended topic and/or going over time
• Convert meeting discussions into actionable tasks on the relevant project

Introduction

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Our First Exercise (10 minutes)

Think of an example of a bad meeting you attended. What did you find was making you not want to attend more meetings like it? Why did it make such an impression on you? Try to differentiate between what was bad about the behavior of the chair and attendees and what was good about the setup of the meeting. Take a few minutes to write down some notes about your answer, then introduce yourself to the other participants and tell them about it.