Make your meetings leadership-ready

Are your meetings leadership-ready? If they aren’t, and if you are going through change, you are likely to be experiencing the following symptoms: delays; diary crowding; increasing stress; inefficiency and frustration. But fixing this is both easier and more exciting than you may realise.

Inspirometer has a wide range of free resources to help you. Our meetings clinic provide a wealth of free, easy-to-adopt, strategies to improve meetings, and enable you to adapt your approach at your own speed, step by step creating meeting environments which fulfil your leadership needs.  For lifetime free subscription to the clinic Read More

We also provide individual and collective measurement systems so that people can identify which strategies will be most powerful for them and then track the impact of these strategies and adapt them until they are fully effective. Analysis of meeting strengths and areas-for-development link directly into a menu of appropriate strategies which can be easily adapted and adopted to the needs of the situation. To understand more about these, click here.

And we also provide a free webinar to help you to think through your approach to leadership-ready meetings and plan your first steps.

 

Accessing The Meetings Clinic

To access the Meetings Clinic, simply look for the ‘symptom areas’ box in the left hand menu.

It is the third box down, and looks like the image on the right.

Clicking on the drop down box will reveal a number of different areas as described below. Select the one that is relevant to what you are looking to improve in your own meetings. This will open up a new page with suggested ‘prescriptions’ (simple strategies which you can adopt as part of your current approach to meetings to build leadership-readiness into them).

The symptom areas you can choose from are:

  1. Purpose – clarity of aims and approach – how to define a goal for your meetings which empowers you and your people
  2. Attendance – right people, right time, ready! – how to determine what sort of participation is right for your meeting and to bring it about
  3. Leadership – guidance and facilitation – techniques and guidance which enable you to build ownership through non directive approaches
  4. Listening – involvement and understanding – methods of presentation and communication which better engage your people
  5. Creativity – generating ideas and insights – helping you to better understand creativity and the environment and tools which support it
  6. Efficiency – speed and quality of progress – helping you think through the meeting platforms which most efficiently deliver your progress
  7. Commitment – ownership of outcomes/actions – how to use techniques of clarity and consensus to build commitment which delivers
  8. Progress – achievement between meetings – helping you understand the obstacles to progress and to better engage people in delivery
  9. Tools – making use of best-practice – how to adapt and use the wide range of tools that already exist to meet your meeting purposes
  10. Facilities – rooms, technology and support – how to arrange and configure the facilities at your disposal to create the right meeting environment

For more guidance on how these things fit together, sign up for our free webinar.