meetings
How to facilitate your best offsite meeting ever
Offsite meetings don’t need a fancy venue or catered lunch to succeed. Successful offsites need thoughtful facilitation that emphasizes the human factor.
How to counteract 3 types of bias and run inclusive meetings
Unconscious biases against introverts, remote workers, and women mean they struggle to be heard in meetings. Use these tactics to be more inclusive.
That time I deleted all my meetings (on purpose)
You know you want to get rid of all your recurring meetings. Here’s why you should.
6 meeting hacks (and 1 weird tip) that build trust
The first one is: just close your laptops
Surprisingly effective ways to hack open office spaces
Open-plan offices are as polarizing as politics. Firmly believing they don’t have to suck, we turned the conventional approach upside down. Here’s the result.
Why is speaking up at work important?
We’ve all been there. You want to pitch an idea or offer a difference-making piece of constructive criticism to your team. But the second you get ready to chime in, you… stay quiet. You’re not alone. Speaking up in general, let alone at work, is tricky for most, if not all, of us. According to […]
Take note, take action: the innovator’s guide to meeting notes
Think you know meeting notes? Think again. Savvy companies use them to foster transparency and innovation. Here’s how.
Who should be at the table? Tips for selecting your meeting attendees
Meetings are simply a group of people. So effective meetings hinge on having the right people at the table. Leave someone out, and you might not have the right perspectives to make an informed choice. Have too many folks in the room, and the meeting can become unfocused and a waste of time. How many […]
Virtual collaboration: not just for remote teams anymore
Virtual collaboration is an excellent alternative to in-person meetings, but too few people recognize it as a viable option.
How to manage meetings like an expert facilitator
A skilled meeting facilitator can get a group to discuss, debate, and, above all, decide a lot of stuff in not-a-lot of time. Trouble is, most teams don’t have dedicated program managers or agile coaches to step in and fill that role. So as the modern workplace becomes ever-more collaborative, it’s increasingly important for all team members […]
Want better meetings? Meet Helmut, the rubber chicken
Don’t we all love meetings that go on forever? And people who love listening to the sound of their own voice? Obviously, the answer is “no”. Do we all want better meetings? Yes! I’ve sat in I-don’t-know-how-many business meetings over the course of my career where the discussion went forever, but was going nowhere. The […]
Inside Atlassian: a product manager and a dev manager walk into a planning meeting…
Product planning meetings are one of the most important meetings in a product’s lifecycle so we decided to take you inside a product planning meeting at Atlassian by filming the latest Portfolio for Jira planning meeting (filming the planning meeting of a planning tool seemed only fitting). These product planning meetings tend to happen quarterly and last about four hours (don’t worry – we time-lapsed it for you of course!).
How to run effective meetings with Confluence
How many times have you left a meeting thinking it was a waste of time? Have you ever felt ‘meeting dread’ because you know that the next hour is time better spent actually getting work done? The fact is most of the meetings we attend during the day don’t accomplishing anything. Meetings with no agenda, meetings full of […]