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- S2E1: Meet Smarter, Not Longer
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 and hosted by Lauren Green
Edited and produced by Caitlin Murray10 min - S1E10: Closing a Meeting and Follow-up
Once you’ve completed your agenda, all that’s left is to wrap it in a bow. In this last episode of This Meeting Suck Season 1, we’ll walk you through how to close the conversation, recap next steps, and send participants on their way.
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Written and hosted by Lauren Green
Edited and produced by Caitlin Murray8 min - S1E9: Conflict and Time Management in Meetings
No matter how detailed your outline or how much you prepped, you can never guarantee a 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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Written and hosted by Lauren Green
Edited and produced by Caitlin Murray21 min - S1E8: Kicking Off a Meeting
How you kick off a meeting and each activity is critical to the success of every meeting. This episode teaches you how to start a meeting with strength and transition into new activities and topics with ease. Plus, a focused look at open-ended questions.
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Written and hosted by Lauren Green
Edited and produced by Caitlin Murray19 min - S1E7: Final Meeting Prep Steps
Before you kick off your meeting, there are some important final preparations you should make to ensure it runs smoothly. It’s time to connect with co-planners, collect your materials, communicate with participants, and more.
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Written and hosted by Lauren Green
Edited and produced by Caitlin Murray14 min - S1E6: When In Doubt, Open Space
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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Edited and produced by Caitlin Murray12 min - S1E5: How to Write a Facilitation Guide
After you’ve prepped for your meeting and outlined your agenda, it’s time to create a facilitation guide: a detailed version of your agenda with talking points, reflection questions, tech host instructions, and more. Plus, we discuss the uses of tools like affinity clustering and breakouts to ensure a smooth and productive meeting.
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Edited and produced by Caitlin Murray15 min - S1E4: Outlining a Meeting
You’ve decided to meet, you’ve started to prep, and now it’s time to outline your meeting. In this episode, we’ll take you through the steps of creating an outline—choosing a medium, establishing outcomes, creating flow, timing and energy shifts, and how to open and close the meeting.
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Edited and produced by Caitlin Murray16 min - S1E3: Prepping for a Meeting
Successful meetings have a design. If you’re showing up without a plan and wondering why it’s not working, it’s time to make a change. 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 and hosted by Lauren Green
Edited and produced by Caitlin Murray8 min - S1E2: Should We Meet?
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 scenarios when it makes sense not to.
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Written and hosted by Lauren Green
Edited and produced by Caitlin Murray8 min
About This Meeting Sucks
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Welcome to This Meeting Sucks®, the podcast providing tangible tools to “un-suck” your meetings.