Fewer Meetings, Faster Teams, Bolder Outcomes
REAP conference digital goodie bag.
If you spend a lot of your working day in meetings - with too much talking and not enough action, you're not alone!
Meetings are the centre of how we collaborate, but we overuse them and don't have many good techniques for many good use of time.
So loud voices dominate and we leave, sometimes less clear than we started!
Hi, I'm Carrie Goucher - a specialist in how we meet and collaborate. Here is a taster guide to start improving every meeting you lead and attend.
Want better meetings? Start here...
Ecourse: How do I get out of meeting gridlock?
(100% discount for REAP conference attendees, normally £89)
Help everyone contribute better
by the way you brief people AKA the invite
How do I stop the same voices dominating my meeting?
Here's my guide to tackling the biggest issue I hear about - overtalking.
How can I improve meetings I don't run?
Sometimes the issues is not your own meetings - but other people's!
Templates to help you meet better
Social contracting: The clear and energising invitation
Make a strong and clear social contract with the invitation template.
The session canvas
Our alternative to an agenda - ready to create, share and put on screen to guide the session.
The capture canvas
Capture the full value of every session - decided, next and car park. Ready to create and share after the session.
Scaffolding playbook
Browse 20+ ideas for meeting scaffolds that hear all voices rapidly.
Get my go-to AI meeting note prompt
The meeting summaries automatically created by Microsoft and other copilots are nowhere near good enough to use in real life. Here's what I do instead to instantly create the detailed meeting summary I need.
My meeting AI prompt:
- Takes any meeting transcript and turns it into detailed notes - close enough to share with some small edits
- Creates specific but concise notes rather than reams of GenAI waffle (and all those headings and subheadings 😵)
- Asks AI to fill in gaps, flag up risks and make recommendations - adding value to the work, not just recording the content of the meeting.
