Effective Meetings - Basics for Student Leaders

EFFECTIVE MEETINGS

May Leadership Internship

I’m Mikal

StrategicInputIdeationLearnerAchiever

You can find me at:@MikalResLife

Hello

!

OBJECTIVES

1. Components of a good meeting

2. When to have (or cancel) a

meeting

3. Put it into practice

List 3 to 5 meetings you attended this year

Info sharingTeambuilding

Decision

making

Brainstorming Training/

skillbuilding

Know yourtype

Let’s fix it!

Anatomy of a meeting ● Preparatio

n● Manageme

nt● Followup

Preparation

● Location

● Time

● Agenda

● Invitations

Parkinson’s Law

“Work

expands to fill

the time

available for

its

completion”

For the love of Pete, use an agenda.

Agenda Elements

Time limit

Sent ahead of time

Objectives

Who is responsible

Meeting Management

● START ON TIME

● Facilitation

● Tracking decisions

● “Idea bin”

● END ON TIME

Follow Up

● Document decisions

● Share

● Follow up with those assigned a task

Preach it, Harvard Business Review

Tech that can help ● Doodle

● Need to Meet● Slack● Google drive● Group messaging● Stormboard

Practice

● Who?

● Objectives

● What to send in advance

Thanks!You can find me at:@[email protected]

CREDITS

Special thanks to all the people who made and released these awesome resources for free:

➜ Presentation template by SlidesCarnival➜ Photographs by Death to the Stock Photo (

license)