The meeting ends and key moments evaporate.
The decision nobody wrote down, the owner nobody named, the idea that got talked over. It comes down to how each person in the room behaves, including you. The Academy starts with your Meeting DNA, then a course built around your type and your three most important meetings.
80% of the course is the same for everyone. 20% is yours.
Knowing how to run a meeting is the easy part.
Meeting challenges are behavioural. Changing how you behave in a meeting takes practice on real meetings and a lesson that fits you. Three findings shaped the course.
So your baseline comes from your attendees.
Rogelberg, Harvard Business Review, 2019So we teach what gets said, as well as agendas.
Kauffeld and Lehmann-Willenbrock, 2012So every module ends in a real meeting.
McEwan and colleagues, 2017Small, ordinary moves with large effects
Groups that started 5 or 10 minutes late produced fewer and weaker ideas. Allen, Lehmann-Willenbrock and Rogelberg, 2018
Groups that talk straight away produce fewer and weaker ideas than the same people working alone first. Mullen, Johnson and Salas, 1991
When key facts were held unevenly, groups were eight times less likely to find the right answer. Lu, Yuan and McLeod, 2012
Complaining spreads and predicted worse team results. Solution talk predicted better ones. Kauffeld and Lehmann-Willenbrock, 2012
An agenda only improved meeting quality when attendees had seen it in advance. Cohen and colleagues, 2011
In a field experiment, camera-on days raised fatigue and lowered participation. Shockley and colleagues, 2021
Two things happen once. Then the course follows your calendar.
Your Meeting DNA, and naming your three most important meetings. After that, every module ends in a meeting you were going to have anyway.
A short lesson and one move, chosen for your type and for what this meeting is for.
One small change, such as giving your view last or asking what would fix it.
A 30-second reflection and, at set points, a rating from the people in the room.
What happened in the meeting decides what you learn next.
Objectives, preparation, participation, deciding, facilitation, closing and the design of your recurring meetings. Short videos, with good and bad versions of each moment shown side by side.
Your type's strength and watch-out in each principle, one move for each of your three meetings and a plan for the moment each one usually goes wrong.
The course
Eleven modules. Videos of six minutes or less. A lesson for attendees in every one, because most of the people in a meeting aren't running it. In-person, online and hybrid.
- 00StartYour meeting DNA, your three meetings and a baseline from the people in them.
- 01Why meetings failIt comes down to behaviour more than logistics.
- 02Clear objectivesWhether to meet, what for and who is needed.
- 03Informed attendeesPreparation people will do, and what to do when they haven't.
- 04Collective inputHearing from everyone, including people who rarely speak.
- 05DecidingWho decides, by what rule, and writing it down.
- 06Focused facilitationSteering what gets said as well as how long it takes.
- 07Purposeful closingDecisions and owners that last beyond the meeting.
- 08The meeting systemYour recurring meetings, audited and redesigned.
- 09AI in the meetingNotetakers, summaries and telling people.
- 10Make it lastWorking agreements you make with your own team.
Built for one person. Better with a team.
See how you behave in meetings: your Meeting Type and your Meeting Style.
Hold back or step in: your type decides which lesson you get.
Practise on the three that matter most, whether you lead them or attend.
Twelve meeting types give the team words for what happens in the room.
When everyone opts in, see which types are at the table and what that mix misses.
The last module is a working-agreement session you run with your team. "No agenda, no meeting" is a common first rule.
Most companies count meeting hours. Hardly any measures whether those hours work. This does.
You see patterns across the company and never one person's results.
One course, with a different 20% for every person who takes it. What do your meetings cost?
We measure the meeting, not a quiz score.
The people in your most important meeting rate it three times. Your Meeting Style is measured again at the end, so you can see what changed.
Your meeting DNA is yours.
Your type, your lessons and your plans are seen by you and nobody else.
Your company sees patterns across everyone, never one person's results.
It exists to help you meet better. It is not used to score you.
Switch reminders off at any time. The course still works.
Questions
Is this a personality test?
No. It describes how you behave in meetings. Your Meeting Type stays stable. Your Meeting Style can change, which is why it is measured again at the end.
How much time does it take?
Course videos are six minutes or less, and each module ends with one change to a real meeting you were going to have anyway.
I don't run meetings. Is it for me?
Yes. Every module has a lesson for attendees, and your three meetings can be ones you attend.
Who sees my results?
Only you. Your company sees totals across everyone. Nothing feeds into appraisal.
Does it work across countries and cultures?
Meeting habits differ between countries and companies. The course teaches principles, and the personal part is built from your own meetings and the agreements your own team makes, so it fits how your organisation works.
Does my whole team need to take it?
No. It works for one person. When a team takes it together and everyone opts in, you also see the mix of types in the meetings you share.
This isn't for everyone.
It's for teams that would rather get work done than meet about it.