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Effective Meetings

Meetings consume a lot of time, much of which is perceived as unproductive. Meetings are also the platform where the culture of a team is revealed and can be changed. Effective Meetings is about ensuring more impactful collaboration and using the available time in meetings more effectively.

Effective Meeting coaching with Greg Arena
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How effective are your meetings?

To self-assess, answer the following 6 questions...

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The right people participate in our meetings, i.e. the people who can make a significant contribution to the outcome of the meeting and who are required in order to produce a good result.

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Participants come to our meetings well prepared.

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Die aktive Teilnahme in unseren Meetings ist gleich verteilt, im Gegensatz zu Meetings, wo ein oder zwei Teilnehmer dominieren.

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Meeting participants say what they really think rather than avoiding the difficult topics.

5 / 6

Meeting participants generally listen to each other with interest and openness.

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In our meetings we generally come to clear and concrete results, and to decisions that have a positive impact on our business.

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Topics areas

  • Meeting landscape: Number of meetings and participants per meeting.
  • Meeting preparation: Participants, information, agenda, meeting objective and objective per agenda item.
  • Meeting execution: Methods, participant engagement, decision-making, facilitation.
  • Post-meeting: Minutes, follow-up.
  • Retrospective: Continual improvement of all meetings aspects.
  • Statistically, office workers spend an average of 50% of their time in meetings; they report that 50% of that time is unproductive. That's 25% of their average working time! Even small improvements can have a significant impact.
  • Improving meetings is thus a relatively easy way to work both more effectively and more efficiently.
  • Meetings are where most decisions are prepared and/or made. If the basis for these decisions is better, better decisions will be made, in many cases, more quickly.
  • How we treat each other is mirrored - and learned - in meetings. Meeting quality therefore has a big impact on the well-being of employees.
  • Pre-meeting: Are the right people being invited to meetings, i.e. the ones that are able to make the most valuable contribution to the meeting's outcome? Has enough thought been given to the desired outcome per agenda point? Do the participants have the information they require, in order to produce the best possible outcome?
  • During the meeting: Do one or two people dominate the discussion while others seem to be mentally absent? Do discussions frequently go in circles? Are decisions made in meetings, to which the participants are truly committed?
  • Post-meeting: Do the minutes reflect the key points that the people affected require, in order to move forward? Are outcomes and To Dos formulated clearly? Is there sufficient follow-up on points of action?

For all organizations and teams within the organization, including the leadership teams.

  • The analysis phase consists of reviewing meeting documents, e.g. the agenda, observing a meeting and, if necessary, having the meeting participants answer a questionnaire.
  • On this basis, potential opportunities for improvement with regard to the preparation, the execution and the follow-up of results are discussed, and fields of action are agreed upon.
  • You receive support from me in the form of templates (e.g. agenda), methodology training (e.g. Time-to-Think or decision-making), and individual or team coaching (e.g. on preparing and running meetings), all with the aim of improving meeting quality and culture.
  • All of my interventions are targeted at improving both meeting outcomes and meeting culture.
Testimonials

What my clients say

For many years I have worked with a wide variety of people and groups, all of whom have enriched my life. You can read here what some of them say about working with me.

Having decided that we want to build a listening culture in our organization, we hired Greg to help us improve our meetings. He helped us to see that our behaviour, for example the way we managed dialogues, was holding people back from making their best contribution in meetings. Having made us aware of our deficits, Greg coached us through a Transforming Meetings process. We learned that meeting quality is driven by both methodology and our attitude toward others’ thinking. Greg’s direct yet gentle manner helped make our meetings more efficient and increased the speed of decision-making in the team, as well as people’s commitment to those decisions.
Photo von Susanne Otto der Credit Suisse und Kundin von Greg Arena bei dem Thema Effektive Meetings.
Susanne Otto
Head of Strategy & Client Intelligence – Wealth Management, Credit Suisse
As a language publishing company, our job is to get people talking to each other. As language publisher, we become even better when we  listen to each other. That's exactly what Greg Arena taught us with Time-to-Think: Listen to each other intensely, give each other space to think things through. By doing that, we are achieving our objectives more efficiently!
Photo von Matthias Rupp, Geschäftsführer von Ernst Klett Sprachen und Kunde von Greg Arena bei dem Thema Organisationsentwicklung, einschließlich Effektive Meetings sowie Time-to-Think.
Matthias Rupp
Managing Director, Ernst Klett Sprachen

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