Fewer meetings, bolder conversations, faster delivery
A step-by-step programme for team leaders. Declutter how your team meets, then build a simple system for working together that keeps running without you pushing it.
- Declutter your meetings
- Bring in helpful, healthy norms
- Get full contribution from everyone
Meetings are a system
Almost everything about how we meet was inherited from the factory era, when a meeting was where you handed out instructions and checked they'd been followed. Work has changed but the way we meet hasn't been redesigned.
That's why we are in meetings all day and just having a better agenda doesn't fix it. Change the system your team meets in, free up time for deep work and stop pushing everything forward yourself.
Four modules over eight weeks, at your own pace
Start with a short onboarding, then a new module unlocks every two weeks. Each one has a 10-minute video, a workbook and a ready-to-run session with your team. Work through them when it suits you, and finish before the end of the year.
Meet less, but better
Meet only for what humans do best (handling uncertainty) and move everything else to async. Get people in the room clear, prepped and ready to contribute, then capture every drop of value.
You walk away with: fewer meetings on the calendar, your team's Smart6 and a Capture Canvas.
Just enough structure to create flow
Build information radiators so people can self-serve without a meeting. Make async work harder, and scaffold meetings for fuller, faster contribution.
You walk away with: your team's collaboration stack, from live meetings to async to radiators.
More candour, more trust
Use your own style and impact to get everyone speaking up. Build your team's ability to disagree well, and set a high bar with high support.
You walk away with: a Strong Space your team has agreed together, in their own words.
Fix the system, not the person
Make deciding (and then doing) your team's superpower. Build a rhythm that keeps going without you, and stay steady when things change around you.
You walk away with: clear deciding lanes, and your finished team collaboration canvas.
Built around how your team already works, so life gets easier from week one
Each module is mercifully short with deep dives where you need them. The workbook guides you through streamlining with your team, step by step, so you're saving time and seeing change from the very start.
Get a FrictionFree tool for free
The Smart6 is the six-part invite that gets people arriving clear and prepared. Use it on your next meeting and see what changes.
Sample: Handling problem behaviours in meetings
Let's explore how to combine tools to hold boundaries around unhelpful behaviours in meetings.
“I’ve finally learned a practical framework and set of tools that have helped our team work together in a more focused and efficient way. I can already see a positive shift in our day-to-day work, with better meetings, clearer outcomes and (yes please!) less wasted time. The FrictionFree Team Reset is something so many companies need. Highly recommended.”
Let's get started
Start your onboarding before 17 October and work through it at your own pace this autumn. Early adopters also get a one-hour coaching session with me and three live Q&A calls.
- All four modules, videos, workbooks and podcasts
- A one-hour coaching session with me (worth £350)
- Three live Q&A calls, at times that suit different time zones
- Work at your own pace and finish before the end of the year
- 14-day money-back guarantee
Interested but not quite ready to buy? After the 17th October, the price goes up. You'll get the same four modules, done at your own pace, with a live Q&A call in your time zone but no 1:1 coaching session.
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The questions everyone asks
I've done meetings training before. How is this different?
Most meetings training works on the meeting itself. This works on the whole system around it: what happens async, how work is made visible, how people speak up, and how decisions get made. That's why the changes stick.
I'm already drowning. How much time does it take?
About 2 hours a fortnight: a 10-minute video, the workbook, and one session with your team that replaces a meeting you'd have had anyway. The very first steps are about cutting meetings, so you start getting time back early.
I never finish online courses.
That's why it's built this way. One module unlocks every two weeks, so it's never a wall of content, and each one ends with a clear session to run with your team. If you join in autumn, you also have three live Q&A calls with me to keep you moving.
My team will roll their eyes at another initiative.
You don't need to announce a programme. Everything happens inside meetings you already have, and the first thing your team will notice is fewer of them.
The real problem is above my pay grade.
You don't need budget, a mandate or sign-off from the top. You redesign the part you control, and there's guidance for working across other teams too. Teams that run well tend to get noticed.
Can I talk to you before I buy?
I'm a consultant or facilitator. Can I join?
Yes, you're welcome to do it for your own practice. Please don't share the materials or build courses from them.
Start with module 1. If it's not for you, get your money back.
If you don't get on with it, tell me within 5 days and I'll refund you in full.
Complete it this autumn