Teamwork: Elements of Effective Team Meetings

Team meetings can be an awesome way to get your team coordinated. Or they can be a huge drain on your team’s time and morale.

What are the essential elements of an effective team meeting, if you want to foster great team working?

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This video is part of course module number 4.3.2
Program 4: Managing & Leading Groups
Course 3: Teams
Section 2: Teamwork and Team Working

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LESSON NOTES
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The essential elements of effective team meetings, if you want to foster great teamwork:

• Have an Objective
• Agenda in advance
• Invite the right people
• Good behavior
- Start promptly
- Resume promptly after breaks
- If you need to make or take a call, step out
- Only use devices if you are using them for meeting business (like taking notes)
- Listen respectfully and avoid talking over other people
- Be open and honest
- Everyone should participate
- Stay on the present topic
• Team meeting vs Team Leader meeting
• Everyone contributes
• Red Herrings and Black Holes
• Summarize and conclude as you go – actions on a board
• Keep it lively
• Follow-up

We have a whole course on meetings:

There are also two specific meeting videos on our sister channel:
1. How to Hold a Daily Stand-up Meeting
2. Lessons Learned Meeting: How to Make it Excellent

RECOMMENDED EXERCISE
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1. Think through your recent team meetings. How effective were they? What went well and what did not? How do they need to improve? (2 MC CPD Points)
2. Create a plan for making you next team meetings more effective. (2 MC CPD Points)
3. After each of your next few team meetings, review how they went and adjust your plan accordingly. Continue to monitor until you have seen a series of improvements. (2 MC CPD Points)

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Let's look at the outline of a team meeting and some of the techniques you can use to lead an effective one.