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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Explore my sessionsâś‹ Hands up if you are:
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✔️   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?
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Let's get this started - the right way.
Hi, I'm Dr Carrie Goucher 👋
âś…Â Creator of the FewerFasterBolder collaboration approach
âś…Â Facilitated 6,000+ sessions
✅ 18 years pioneering new ways to collaborate
âś…Â PhD in meeting culture from Cambridge University
✅  Background in: Agile, Unconference and self-organising teams
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 cultureÂ
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.
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!)Â
- 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:Â
- 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 upÂ
What I know that others don'tÂ
- 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.
What people say about working with me
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Example session outlines
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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.
Get started
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STEP 1
Choose a session and start your booking (there's no obligation at this stage) 👉
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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