Your company culture comes to life in your company meetings. How you plan, run, and follow-through on your team sessions impacts almost every aspect of how your people work together. Mamie Kanfer Stewart, founder and CEO of Meeteor, describes how to align your meeting practices with a Lean Startup mindset to support a culture of innovation and collaboration.

1. Meeting Practices That
Support Innovation
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2. The strongest message
about how you want your
culture to perform is
embedded in how you
conduct your meetings.
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” Bob Pothier
Director of Partners in
Leadership,
former GE executive@MeeteorHQ
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3. Culture is the
Set of beliefs and behaviors that
determine how a company's employees
act and interact.
Culture is expressed as implicit or explicit
Rituals, values, norms, systems, symbols,
language, and habits.
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4. Meetings are where
decisions are made, insights
and ideas shared,
relationships built, and power
expressed.
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6. TECHNOLOGY
COACHING
SKILL BUILDING
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7. On average, managers
and senior executives
spend half their time in
meetings.
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8. 62 meetings
are a waste of
time
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$37 billion
per year in
unproductive
meetings
per month
attended on
average
1/3

9. Learnings are only as
good as your response.
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MEASURE
BUILD
LEARN

11. Moving quickly means
maintaining alignment is
harder.
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13. Set a desired outcome
for every meeting.
#1
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List of…
Agreement on…
Decision on…
Alignment on…
Ideas for…
Events scheduled…
Stronger relationships…
Completed…

15. Use norms to establish
expected behaviors in
meetings.
#2
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16. ● Ask how might we and
think boldly.
● Customer’s feedback is
more important than
our opinions.
● Challenge assumptions
and voice concerns.
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17. Take notes, share them
and build a knowledge
bank.
#3
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18. Capture and organize:
● Notes
● Tasks
● Decisions
● Learnings
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LEARNING
N T D L
Learnings are insights, critical information, or ‘ah-ha’s that
you want to call out as important and quickly find in the
future.
NOTE
N T D L
Notes are general conversation that give context for
historical purposes.
TASK
N T D L
Tasks are action items to be done. Assign an owner and list
a due date.
DECISION
N T D L
Decisions are agreements. Be sure to include a rationale or
explanation for why the decision was made.

20. Meetings are a microcosm of
your company.
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21. Set a desired outcome for every meeting.1
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Use norms to establish expected
behaviors in meetings.
Take notes, share them and build a
knowledge bank.

22. Meeting Practices That
Support Innovation
Mamie Kanfer Stewart
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