Meetings

This is my stance on meetings: most are crap and a waste of time. Some could be done over email (they’re just updates), others are solely for uninformed managers, and others still seem useful but lack any follow-up.  So if most meetings are, in fact, a waste of time… then what might a good meeting look like? A meeting is a win if it ends…

Here are five board meeting agenda templates for your board of directors conference. Use the links below to jump to a template that fits your needs: Standard board meeting agenda Strategic planning board meeting Emergency board meeting Nonprofit board meeting Open-ended (blank) board meeting Download the meeting agenda library   Standard Agenda For Board Meetings Purpose: To review routine operational matters, approve previous actions, and…

I was the Integrator (a role in the Entrepreneur’s Operating System) at a fully remote company for five years. Every week for five years, I ran a Level 10 pulse meeting with the Visionary. In this article, you’ll see everything I learned while running an EOS Level 10 (L10) Meeting plus you’ll get a Traction/Level 10 meeting agenda template. Here’s the backstory. Table of Contents…

Here are five types of one-on-one meeting agenda templates you can use throughout the year. Use the links below to jump to a one-on-one meeting template that fits what you’re looking for: Standard one-on-one First one-on-one meeting (onboarding) Weekly one-on-one Performance review Goal-setting meeting How to run a remote team meeting Download the meeting agenda library   Standard One-on-One Meeting Agenda Purpose: An open-ended meeting…

A “team meeting” could mean just about anything: your full team, your full company, your department, or a team dedicated to a certain project. Since it’s such an amorphous term, I built several agenda templates for different types of team meetings: Weekly team meeting agenda Non-work team meeting agenda First team meeting agenda All-hands meeting agenda Department/staff meeting agenda How to run a remote team…

Leadership meetings (or management meetings) are used to align the heads of each department on the key numbers, issues, and strategies within the company. They serve as a forum for analysis, decision-making, and problem-solving. In this article, you’ll learn about the purpose of a leadership meeting, the recommended frequency, who should be included, and what should be included in a leadership meeting agenda.  Purpose Frequency…

When an employee has a meeting with his manager’s manager, it’s called a skip-level meeting. The discussion “skips” over one layer of management.  In this article, we’ll break down every aspect of a skip-level meeting including how to prepare as the employee and the manager. What is a skip-level meeting? Why should you have one? How do you prepare? Questions to ask (employee and manager)…

Patrick Lencioni popularized the phrase “Death by Meeting” in his 2004 book by the same name. But 2020–and the mass shift toward remote work without experience working remotely–introduced an entirely new beast. Deathy by Zoom meeting. I worked at a fully remote company for eight years. When we switched to a four-day work week, we knew meetings had to be cut way down to maintain…

In this library, you’ll find just about every type of meeting that takes place within a business. These 41 meeting types are organized into seven categories, so you can jump to a group that is most relevant to you. For each type of meeting, you’ll see three pieces of information – meeting length, meeting location, meeting frequency – that give the discussion structure. In the table below,…

I ran a company for four years before I thought about our meeting cadence. That was a failure by me as the operator of the business. If you don’t put work into your systems, you’ll end up with whatever comes out the other side (and you may not like it). When we decided to switch to a four-day work week, we reduced our work hours…