Friction-free meetings for modern teams
THE 3-TALK SERIES FOR T/PgMs IN 2026
Warm helloĀ from me, Dr Carrie Goucher in Cambridge, UK!
In this series, I'm going to show you how to reduce the friction of collaboration in three different ways.
I will be sharing my best tools and techniques with you over three talks this spring, including an AI prompt guide to help you implement everything you learn.
View the talksThree talks to transform how you meet and collaborateĀ
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Five power meetings that will change your life as a PgM
Learn the five highest-leverage meeting designs, how process authority (not job title) makes each one work and how toĀ get max value from every slot you've fought to book.
My diary is full and Chat's on fire!
Discover how to break the collabureaucracy cycle where broken async generates more meetings, which leaves less time to fix async. Design your collaboration ecosystem so the system does more work and beats overwhelm.
The parent/child dynamic: activate adult mode
The more you drive everything forward, the more your team waits for you to. Learn the three foundations of adult-to-adult dynamics, and the moves that break the parent/child cycle so your team leads itself.
Toolkit
1. The 5 power meetings session: all the resources
Ā šĀ 5 power meetings cheatsheetĀ
Everything you need to remember on one page.
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This is the file you feed to Gemini toĀ each it the techniques so the prompts work brilliantly for you.Ā
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Ā š Gemini prompt guide
Here are my best prompts for getting Gemini to be your meeting thought partner and do the heavy lifting for meeting preparation.
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Deep dive guides
How I get people to do the friggin prep for meetings I lead š¤¦āāļø
Introduction to scaffolding - 13 techniques I use all the time
How to change a meeting you're not leading
A creative technique for resetting a regular meeting that has 'got lost'
3 ways to open a meeting with psychological safety
Over-talkers: the most common meeting challenge people bring to me
My 3-step conversation pattern for handling unhelpful behaviour in meetings
A conversation pattern for resolving under-the-surface tension
A simple format for capturing the value of every meeting
The simplest way to improve any meeting
The only 6 collaboration leadership skills you will ever need
Your AI prompt guide
Making changes to meetings takes time - theseĀ AI prompts to help you implement what you learn in each session including:
- Prompts to do the heavy lifting designing and preparing focused, energising meetings. From 60 minutes to 6 minutes prep.Ā
- My go-to meetingĀ summaryĀ prompt forĀ very specificĀ and concise notes (rather than reams of GenAI waffle and all those subheadingsĀ šµ). Bonus: AI will fill in gaps, flag up risks and make recommendations - adding value, not just recording the content of the meeting.
- How I use AI toĀ help me improve my leadership and address issues in my teams, using meeting transcripts
Scaffolding playbook
Browse 20+ ideas for meeting scaffolds that hear all voices rapidly.
