Facilitation: Running Meetings That Decide Something

Most meetings fail before anyone speaks, in decisions about purpose, attendance and preparation. This cursus separates the four things meetings are for and why mixing them fails, then covers the room: why the first speaker anchors everyone, how to redistribute airtime, why easy agreement is a warning, and diagnosing disagreement by type. It ends on longer sessions, designing backwards from an artefact, retrospectives people tell the truth in, and why outcomes evaporate afterwards.