meetings
3 free lessons tagged meetings across Business. Each one is a short sequence of focused steps with narration and a five-question quiz at the end — take them in any order, no signup required.
Workshops, Retrospectives, and Making It Stick
Longer sessions have their own failure modes: energy, structure over hours, and the gap between a productive day and anything changing afterwards. This lesson covers designing a workshop backwards from its output, running a retrospective people tell the truth in, and why most session outcomes evaporate.
Running It: Airtime, Silence, and the Difficult Person
Facilitation is mostly managing who speaks and who does not. This lesson covers why the loudest voice dominates for structural reasons, techniques that redistribute airtime without confrontation, handling the person who derails, and what to do when a group agrees too easily.
Most Meetings Fail Before Anyone Speaks
A meeting is a decision about how to spend the combined attention of everyone in the room. This lesson covers the four things meetings are actually for, why mixing them fails, who should be present, and the preparation that determines whether the hour is worth what it costs.