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Review Results and Decide on Changes
Use this retrospective-inspired template to discuss your results, capture notes, and add action items documenting the changes your team will make to improve your meeting performance.
What?
Start by discussing your team’s observations. What stood out to you?
High-level report on people’s meeting time
What people noticed about their meetings
Need to rename my internal meetings. Also, I should bail on the dev call more often, as I’m neither adding nor receiving value there.
Not enough flow time.
A lot of my meetings are simple catchups with no clear purpose or owner
Most of my meetings happen in the morning
Ad-hoc meeting time is taking up a lot of my week.
Not enough time to work on projects.
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Notes: What else did you notice in the reports?
Add your notes here during the discussion
So What?
Now that you have a shared view of what’s really going on in your meetings, what conclusions are you drawing? Possible discussion questions:
What works well in meetings
Write here.
Collaboration
What works well in the meeting inventory is when people speak up who normally don’t speak. Makes decision-making more democratic.
What works well in the meeting inventory is when people speak up who normally don’t speak. Makes decision-making more democratic.
What works well in the meeting inventory is when people speak up who normally don’t speak. Makes decision-making more democratic.
What works well in the meeting inventory is when people speak up who normally don’t speak. Makes decision-making more democratic.
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What could be improved
Write here.
Having clear agendas
The time to prepare for the meeting happens at the beginning of the meeting. I think more pre-work needs to be done to make these meetings more effective.
The time to prepare for the meeting happens at the beginning of the meeting. I think more pre-work needs to be done to make these meetings more effective.
The time to prepare for the meeting happens at the beginning of the meeting. I think more pre-work needs to be done to make these meetings more effective.
The time to prepare for the meeting happens at the beginning of the meeting. I think more pre-work needs to be done to make these meetings more effective.
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Notes: What do we feel matters?
Add your notes here during the discussion
Now What?
Given your team’s insights, what changes should you make? Possible discussion questions:
Identify two or three action items your team can complete as you work to improve your meetings.
Add action item
Clear action items
Done
Action Items
Owner
Due date
Get Sam to fork over the event attendee list.
7/30/2021
Schedule brainstorm for thumb wrestling swag
8/3/2021
Decide which magic tricks translate best over Zoom.
8/11/2021
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