Welcome to Season 2, MeetingMakers! This season is for the managers out there who want their teams to meet more efficiently, not longer. This episode gives you an overview of the season and the skills you'll learn to improve your work life.

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Barry Oshry's Seeing Systems (book*)
Season 1 Playbook: Just-in-Time Meeting Skills (ebook)
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Written by Lauren Green and produced by Caitlin Murray.

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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No matter how detailed your outline is or how much you prepped, you can never guarantee your meeting will go exactly as planned. This episode includes tips for navigating conflict, managing time and ensuring inclusion during your meeting.

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EPISODE RESOURCES:
Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff’s Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There (book)
Questions Library (free PDF)
Get Soaring with Mary Alice Arthur (website)
World Cafe Method (website)
Sam Kaner’s Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making (book)

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Written by Lauren Green and produced by Caitlin Murray.

Kicking off the meeting and each activity is critical for un-sucky meetings. This episode will give you tips and reminders for each, with a bonus focus on open-ended questions.

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Questions Library (free PDF)

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Written by Lauren Green and produced by Caitlin Murray.

If you’ve been following along this season, you probably have a great meeting planned. But before you kick off your meeting, there are some important final preparations you should take to ensure your meeting runs smoothly. It’s time to connect with co-planners, collect your materials, communicate with participants and more.

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EPISODE RESOURCES:
Introduction to Facilitating with Visuals Part 1
Introduction to Facilitating with Visuals Part 2
Communications Template

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Written by Lauren Green and produced by Caitlin Murray.

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.

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Open Space Technology: A User’s Guide (book)

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Written by Lauren Green and produced by Caitlin Murray.

If you’ve been following along with the season so far, then you’ve made in through prepping your meeting and developing an agenda outline. Now it’s time to create a facilitation guide: a detailed version of your agenda with talking points, reflection questions, tech host instructions and more. We’ll also cover the importance of additions like affinity clustering and breakouts for ensuring a smooth and productive meeting.

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Meeting Outline and Facilitation Guide Template (Google Doc)

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Written by Lauren Green and produced by Caitlin Murray.

You’ve decided to meet and you’ve prepped for your meeting. It’s time to outline your meeting. In this episode, we’ll take you through all the steps of creating your outline including choosing a medium, establishing outcomes, creating flow, timing and energy shifts, and how to open and close the meeting.

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EPISODE RESOURCES:
Dancing with MURAL (blog)
Meeting Outline and Facilitation Guide Template (Google Doc)
Sam Kaner’s Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making (book)
Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff’s Future Search Model (book)
5 Steps to Stay Focused When Teaching Online (HBP article)
Designing Meeting Agreements with Visual Tools (blog)
Meeting Agreement Matching (free PDF)

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Written by Lauren Green and produced by Caitlin Murray.

Successful meetings have a design. If you’re just showing up and meeting and wondering why it’s not working, it’s because no one is taking time to plan out your meetings beforehand. 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.
 
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Written by Lauren Green and produced by Caitlin Murray.

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 1-out-of-100 scenario when it makes sense not to.

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