Team meeting audit: 3 tests for an effective Meeting OS (and 4 steps to fix it!)

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Team meeting audit: 3 tests for an effective Meeting OS (and 4 steps to fix it!)

Team meeting audit: 3 tests for an effective Meeting OS (and 4 steps to fix it!)

Part II: Take action

4. Drive effectiveness

How can we make our meetings more effective?

Let’s make sure our meetings are effective!

In the

3. Effectiveness test⁠

, we all scored our meetings and identified meetings that we felt were ineffective. As a reminder, our team effectiveness score is

3.8

⁠

out of 5.

While we’ve spent a lot of time finding flow, defining our Meeting OS, and minimizing ad-hoc meetings, it’s now time to focus on making the meetings we have more effective. A few useful references are

Gamestorming⁠

and

Shishir’s Distributed Meeting Guide⁠

. What can we do to make these meetings more effective?

Step 1: Take Action → Meetings we all thought were ineffective.

100%

⁠

of our joint meetings had low effectiveness scores. Here’s the list - note that it is grouped by meeting so we can see how each of us scored them.

Event Title

Who

Effectiveness

Daily standup

⁠

What can we do to improve these meetings? Add and vote on ideas here. Then, we’ll discuss as a team.

⁠

Add action idea for improving ineffective meetings

⁠

Clear ideas

⁠

Action Idea

Author

Vote

Let's do this!

Echoing a previous suggestion - can we combine Monday standup and kickoff?

What if we moved standup to Slack?

No results from filter

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Step 2: Take Action → Meetings where we disagreed on effectiveness.

Interestingly, we disagreed on the effectiveness of

0%

⁠

of our joint meetings — i.e. some thought they were effective while others didn’t.