14. Run Effective Meetings

Life Skills: Run meetings effectively

How can you run effective meetings?

As a product manager, you cannot skip meetings unfortunately. Meetings are essential to discuss and make decisions to progress or unblock the team, use it wisely to be effective and productive.

• Plan your meeting
• Make the meeting meaningful
• Always Follow-Up : Broadcast the outcome

QUIZ QUESTION::

As a Product Manager, how can you manage meetings effectively and increase the team’s overall productivity? Reorder the information in order to convey your story

ANSWER CHOICES:

Send an invite with meeting purpose, context, agenda and additional documents enabling attendees to be prepared

Stick to the agenda and meeting duration and minimize distractions by suggesting team members to follow-up offline

Determine the meeting purpose, owner and attendees

Capture key takeaways and next steps. The next steps include actions items with owners and timelines identified

Communicate key takeaways and next steps with everyone that attended the meetings and stakeholders that need to be informed

Priority	Information
First
Second
Third
Fourth
Fifth

SOLUTION:

Priority	Information
Second	Send an invite with meeting purpose, context, agenda and additional documents enabling attendees to be prepared
Third	Stick to the agenda and meeting duration and minimize distractions by suggesting team members to follow-up offline
First	Determine the meeting purpose, owner and attendees
Fourth	Capture key takeaways and next steps. The next steps include actions items with owners and timelines identified
Fifth	Communicate key takeaways and next steps with everyone that attended the meetings and stakeholders that need to be informed