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Free Facilitation Course: Simple tips for less terrible meetings

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47 Lessons

Learn how to turn meetings that feel like hell into productive moments.

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What you'll learn in this free meeting and workshop facilitation course

Learn seven key tips to turn any shitty meeting into a productive and effective moment that people don't hate.

Introduction

Meet your coach

What you won't learn

The three big meeting problems we'll tackle

The seven tricks I'll teach you

When did I write this course?

1. Setup roles and rules so that it feels like a game

Introduction

Set the time keeper role or bad cop

Set the caring parent role or good cop

Set minimal rules and make people agree to them personally

Remember this

2. Define a time limit per topic to ensure you end up on time

Introduction

Realize that you have less time than planned

Set a buffer time

Set a visible timer for each topic

Remember this

3. Use sticky notes to show where the discussion is

Introduction

Put sticky notes on a wall and use them to build clarity

Use one sticky note per idea, group it and move it

Write in an easy to read way

Remember this

4. Create a parking space for new ideas and off topic elements

Introduction

Make the parking visible and tell the story

Have time? Review the parking at the end

In a rush? Add categories in your parking

Remember this

5. Use votes to not talk for hours about what's already obvious

Introduction

Give multiple dots to vote and make it fun

Use faith or another culturally relevant voting criteria

Use multiple rounds of votes for complex decisions

Remember this

6. Make people work in smaller groups and then share the summary

Introduction

Split for discussion and join for sharing

Make groups of no more than 4

Give a clear challenge, a clear timing and a clear end result

Remember this

7. Separate the mindsets to make it less confusing

Introduction

Separate coming up with ideas and deciding

Separate the criteria when deciding

Mark the separation of mindsets

Remember this

What you learned and how to make it stick

Introduction

Review the summary and the one thing to remember

Learn by teaching

Make a plan

End notes

Introduction

Thank you note

License

What is this course about?

Learn how to turn meetings that feel like hell into productive moments.

Stop struggling to end up meetings on time, keep people focused on the important stuff, make teams take decisions quickly.

Imagine this!

What if after your next meeting people said: Wow! I want to do it again!?

That's possible! Meetings don't have to be boring, difficult or frustrating. There are simple and practical tips that you can implement today to experience productive meetings. And that's what I'll teach you in this course.

For who?

Why should you follow this course? Because it's easy to create great meetings.

If you've always wanted to…

get your team synchronized without those frustrating blah, blah meetings,
take important decisions in a meeting quickly,
finish meetings on time and with participants that have a smile on their face,

…then this course is for you!

In this bite sized course, I've included my best tips and tricks about how to run and prepare productive meetings, including:

A meeting trick inspired by how kids are able to play games for hours with strangers.
A little math magic to finish meetings exactly on time and sometimes even earlier.
A proven system to take decisions in a meeting in a much faster way.

Where do these meetings tips and tricks come from? From hundreds of meetings and workshop I've run.

I’ve gathered the tips and tricks that I teach in this course from my personal experience with hundreds of meetings and workshops I've ran. I also got inspired from people much smarter than me like psychologists and other meeting facilitators.

Meet the creator

I'm Daniele an Innovation Coach and Service Designer from Switzerland.

I worked with clients from all over the world to help them find innovative solutions to their problem. I've been blessed to be able to learn a lot.
Today I want to share these learnings back with the community. That's why I've built the Swiss Innovation Academy.