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Set the Agenda: Quality Meetings Don't Just Happen

Whether you’re leading meetings or stuck attending them, this newsletter will help you save time, move work forward, and get people actually looking forward to your next call.

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Set the Agenda: Quality Meetings Don't Just Happen A newsletter from Jess Britt Consulting Whether you’re leading meetings or stuck attending them, this newsletter will help you save time, move work forward, and get people actually looking forward to your next call. You’re a high performer who cares deeply about your team and your work. But something’s not working. Why don’t you have time to get real work done? Why do leadership meetings always run over—even when they’re already scheduled for...

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Set the Agenda: Quality Meetings Don't Just Happen A newsletter from Jess Britt Consulting In this week's newsletter Hidden costs of depending too much on 1:1s Warm-up and check-out questions you can use today Tactical starter agenda: leading an early-stage decision-making meeting Relevant reads and listens Your weekly bird break I was in a meeting with a colleague about an upcoming change. We realized we needed to bring a couple other people into the conversation to get input on the...

Quality Meeting Objectives Resource

Set the Agenda: Quality Meetings Don't Just Happen A newsletter from Jess Britt Consulting In this week's newsletter How I made meetings less frustrating Warm-up and check-out questions you can use today Resource: your meeting objectives cheat sheet Your weekly bird break Several years ago I was extremely frustrated by how slowly a project was moving. I would set a meeting to move the project forward and in the meeting we’d spin on questions about key assumptions that we’d already covered....

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Set the Agenda: Quality Meetings Don't Just Happen A newsletter from Jess Britt Consulting In this week's newsletter Why the meeting you dread might be a hidden gem for your team Warm-up and checkout questions you can use today Q: People on my team are sharing inaccurate info and I'm strapped for time. What can I do? Your weekly bird break In a job early in my career we had an all-staff meeting every Monday morning. I loved that meeting. I was a project manager doing detailed...