Team Cognitive Health playbook/Module 8 · Communication

Day 72 / 100 · Communication · Meeting design: how a meeting runs

Every meeting ends with a decision.

Day 36 covered how much time meetings get. Day 57 covered who speaks. Today is about structure: how a meeting runs from open to close.

Purpose

Name The Type

  • Decide, inform or generate?
  • Inform can usually be async
  • The outcome goes in the invite

Structure

Shape The Time

  • An agenda of outcomes, not topics
  • Timeboxes for each item
  • A facilitator and a note-taker

Close

Never Just “Thanks All”

  • Decisions read back aloud
  • Owners and dates named
  • Notes out the same day

Source: Amazon ↗

Every meeting ends with a decision or an action.