Meeting ToolChest
Good meetings inform and inspire, they build teamwork, resolve blockages, find creative ways forward, raise the energy, and leave people feeling empowered and resolute. They have the potential to make people feel part of something bigger, to develop them, to engage them, to give them the confidence and resources they need to make the difference they want to be. Good meetings are the highlight of the working week.
But people’s everyday reality of meetings tends to fall some way short of this. Most meetings are stuck in a time warp. They are rooted in a style of ‘presentation and debate’ – an approach that remains largely unchanged from a time when they were required to support a more autocratic style of leadership.
The move toward remote working and virtual meetings is an opportunity to change all that.
Modern forms of leadership require a more participative means of engaging people, particularly at a distance, and while presentation and debate have their place in that, they need to be augmented by approaches which engage people’s hearts, minds and ideas, and which better support the ideals of the first paragraph.
Meeting ToolChest is intended as a free resource to equip people in making those transitions – both virtual and engaged. A series of stepping stones to provide an incremental pathway of your own choosing – gradually adopting tools and techniques at a manageable pace to suit your needs and situation. It consists of some pages of explanation, and a selection of tools and techniques to support that.
Its Curator
Mike Clargo has spent three decades: in designing meetings to inspire and engage leadership teams in a shared vision of success; in training others to do the same; and in creating and curating resources to support that.