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Improving meeting culture - where to even start?!


Most companies want to:

  • Get people out of wasted meeting time
  • Make serious progress in every meeting
  • Avoid collaboration burnout - where sheer volume of meetings and email is exhausting people

BUT, changing meetings is not straightforward. (If it was, you would have done it already)

I'll help you get started

 

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âś‹ Hands up if you are:

 

✔️   Committed to addressing meetings in your organisation?

✔️   Unsure what changes to meetings to introduce and how?

✔️   Unclear on who should own it and where it fits?

✔️   Trying to figure out how to tie it into other culture or performance initiatives?

✔️   Wondering how to handle hybrid working?

✔️   Trying to put together a roadmap - how would you roll out this change in practice?

✔️   Looking for guidance on making improvements to meetings stick?

✔️   Interested in what other companies are doing and what's working?

 

Let's get this started - the right way.

Hi, I'm Dr Carrie Goucher 👋


✅  Creator of the FewerFasterBolder collaboration approach

✅  Facilitated 6,000+ sessions

✅  18 years pioneering new ways to collaborate

✅  PhD in meeting culture from Cambridge University

✅  Background in: Agile, Unconference and self-organising teams

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How I can help

Diagnose your key meeting issues


We can explore:
Exactly what is going on and what’s that’s costing you in time, money, energy and progress.

And we can establish:
The business case framed in a narrative that everyone will care about.

Define your new collaboration culture 


We can explore:
How meetings and collaboration can directly drive what matters to your organisation - both your culture and performance goals.


And we can establish:
Powerful, purposeful goals for your collaboration culture.

Develop your roadmap for meeting culture change


We can explore:
The key 9 steps needed and how they might fit together best for your organisation.

And we can establish:
A clear roadmap - the sequence of steps that will release people from wasted meeting time and change habits for good.

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What you'll gain

Understand crucial concepts:

  • How we got into meeting overload as a society - and therefore what will get us out
  • The 11 principles of a collaboration culture that work in a knowledge business (not a 1950s factory!)
  • Why developing a collaboration North Star will guide your choices and create align with other initiatives
  • How behaviour change occurs for deeply embedded events like meetings
  • The three main types of improvements to experiment with - and how to introduce them
  • How to get momentum without requiring everyone to do even more work (spoiler alert - it’s not a big launch!) 
  • The sequence of internal comms for this work - who, when, why, what
  • What other organisations are doing that’s working

Develop a clear strategy and roadmap: 

  • Your business case and what mediocre meetings are actually costing your business - and not just in money
  • The factors keeping your people in mediocre meeting time
  • What inspiring goals will drive progress and get people excited - and specifically what good collaboration looks like for your organisation
  • How a discovery, experimentation and scaling programme might look in your specific organisation
  • The best options for designing and introducing changes to meetings in your context - without resistance or frustration
  • Who you would need to involve and how you can align with everything else going on
  • How to build a following in your organisation and start to shift mindsets
  • How to tell what’s working for your organisation and scale it up 

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What I know that others don't 

  • I'm one of the most experienced and innovative designers of new ways of working in the UK, with 18 years experience reducing the friction of collaboration for organisations - including meetings, email, group chat.
  • So obsessed with improving meetings and collaboration culture, I did a PhD at Cambridge, researching meetings as part of complex systems.
  • My PhD thesis was described as 'game-changing' for Meeting Science because it exposes the huge extent of factors which influence meeting culture and explains why introducing meeting rules so often fails.
  • My approach works because it works with your people and the constraints and drivers they are faced with every day. I can show you how to design new ways of working that release time and effort in your specific organisation - ways that everyone welcomes!
  • I'm easy to work with and bring a lightness and optimism to the sometimes 'heavy' work of meetings. Get ready to feel hopeful and inspired.

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What people say about working with me

 

Example session outlines

 

Here are three of the most common sessions I'm asked for.
The exact conversation is always determined by you, using
as much or little of my framework as serves you.

Sessions are via video call, unless we agree otherwise.

1 hour

Orientation

 

This session will open up the conversation, get some firm concepts and goals to share back with others in your organisation and kick start meaningful change.

In this session, we can:

  • Understand the key research and concepts that underpin meeting culture 
  • Explore how the business case works and what you could expect to achieve
  • Dive into your organisation - we'll explore your meeting culture and I'll give you my take on your situation and possible strategies
  • Get an overview of how meeting culture shift happens in practice
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2 hours

Strategy

 

Building on the Orientation session deliverables, we'll use the two hours to dive deeper in your organisation.

In this session, we can:

  • Explore your business case 
  • Define your collaboration culture change goals
  • Explore the meeting transformation strategies I think you should consider - and talk through a roadmap 
  • Review what other organisations have done (and how well it's worked)
  • Highlight my key considerations for your specific organisation as you decide on a way forward.
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2 hours

Reboot

 

If you have already delivered a meeting transformation intervention that hasn't delivered against its goals, this session will get your project back on track.

In this session, we can:

  • Deep dive into the intervention and what has / hasn't worked
  • Explore the concepts around meeting culture transformation - and expose gaps to close 
  • Discuss how to pivot or reset your current work in one of three ways
  • Explore examples of successful meeting transformation programmes 
  • Create a full roadmap  and the key considerations for your specific organisation
Book this session

Get started

 

STEP 1

Choose a session and start your booking (there's no obligation at this stage)  👉

 

STEP 2

I'll email you with options and costs - and a link to choose a date and confirm your booking, when you're ready

STEP 3

I'll share a simple pre-workshop pack with everything you need to get the most out of our session.

Let's get booked in

 

Very much looking forward to it!   🎉