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Meeting effectiveness assessment

Evaluate and improve the meetings you run and attend

Assess the effectiveness of your meetings and identify ways to make them more productive. This activity helps you transform meetings from time drains to value creators.

40 minutes
analysis

Overview

Assess the effectiveness of your meetings and identify ways to make them more productive. This activity helps you transform meetings from time drains to value creators.

Learning objectives

  • Evaluate meeting effectiveness
  • Identify improvement opportunities
  • Create meeting optimization strategies

Instructions

Assess meeting effectiveness:

1. List all recurring meetings you own or attend 2. Rate each on value delivered (1-10) 3. Calculate meeting ROI (time invested vs value) 4. Identify meetings to eliminate or improve 5. Create meeting improvement plans

Steps

1

Meeting inventory

15 minutes

List and categorize all meetings

2

Value assessment

15 minutes

Evaluate meeting effectiveness

3

Improvement planning

10 minutes

Design meeting optimizations

Pro tips

  • Consider async alternatives
  • Question recurring meetings quarterly
  • Always have clear agendas

Example outcome

A meeting effectiveness report with 3 meetings to cancel and 5 to optimize

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