Priming involves using certain words to influence people's mindsets and how they approach tasks. Meeting hosts can prime participants to be engaged by including words like "impressive" in the meeting agenda. Research shows priming words like "patient" can influence people to walk more slowly. The meeting agenda is a tool to prime attendees' mindsets. Collaboration meetings are generally easiest to host as the goal is sharing ideas to achieve a common goal. Engaging large audiences sometimes requires more careful moderation than small groups. Meeting moderators can foster positive engagement and deter negative attention.

1. PRIMING FOR PRODUCTIVE
‘MEETINGS

3. PRIMING
There’s a process in psychology called “priming” that’s helpful in meeting
scheduling. Priming is a powerful tool for meeting hosts because it helps to
influence the way meeting participants will associate their role in association with
the proposed meeting

4. RESEARCH ABOUT
PRIME MEETINGS
Patient
Polite
Respectful
Research shows that priming can
influence someone to walk more
slowly by having them read
words such as “patient,” “polite,”
or “respectful.” In this way, you
can prime meeting participants
to be excited for an upcoming
meeting by using words such as
“impressive” or “tremendous

5. SCHEDULING ENGAGING AND USEFUL MEETINGS
As a meeting host, you want to develop a
reputation for scheduling engaging and
useful meetings
As a meeting participant, you
want to participate in thoughtful
engagement that provides
everyone value
but you also want to defend your own
time from unproductive meetings

6. THE MEETING AGENDA
The meeting agenda itself is a tool that can be
used to prime attendees for a positive
experience
Consider searching for “exciting words” or
“engaging words” that you can include to
help better define the purpose of your next
meeting
You can brainstorm useful words by searching
on Google
The more time you put into the meeting
agenda, the more likely your meeting
attendees will come prepared to engage

7. COLLABORATION MEETINGS ARE GENERALLY THE
EASIEST TO HOST
because the outcome is essentially based on a team sharing ideas to achieve a common goal.
Presentation meetings often require more coordination between key subject matter experts and
meeting attendees

8. ENGAGING LARGE
AUDIENCES IS
SOMETIMES EASIER
THAN SMALL
GROUP
AUDIENCES
Jonah Berger, the author of Invisible Influence,
explores how social influence can affect everything
from the products people buy to the satisfaction
they feel for their jobs. Berger’s research notes that
“people don’t think they’re influenced by others…
but ninety-nine point nine percent of all decisions
are shaped by others.”

9. LARGE AUDIENCES CAN BE MANAGED CAREFULLY
USING MEETING MODERATION TOOLS
large meetings can benefit from
hearing questions voiced directly
from meeting attendees
A good moderator can control the audience's
ability to unmute their microphones using the
raise hand feature
Yet, without moderation, most online meetings can be filled with
people cutting each other off trying to determine who is
supposed to speak next
in order to have a positive impact on meeting

10. MEETING MODERATORS
Meeting moderators can foster positive audience engagement and deter potentially negative
attention as well. Consider creating a list of questions that lead up to a climactic “turning point”
question. A turning point question assumes your meeting attendees are familiar with the subject
matter. Use a turning point question to apply educational subject matter to a real world situation
that applies context to your specific business

11. TURNING POINT QUESTIONS CAN ALSO BE LEFT OPEN-
ENDED
Open-ended
questions are a great
way to exit a
meeting and leave
your attendees
thinking
Turning point questions
that are funny can have
a particularly positive
effect
Popular memes are a
great source for
turning point media
that provoke laughter

12. Group Brainstorming
Meeting ;)
Inspirational
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13. THE INVISIBLE
INFLUENCE
The Invisible Influence notes that “mere
exposure [to other people] increases liking.”
The more you meet with your peers, the
stronger your relationships will become.
Therefore, simply “Showing Face” and
presenting your ideas on any subject should
always be considered a benefit for
relationship-building. Time is money to
many people but perhaps more importantly,
time is an experience that can be shared

14. INTERESTING ASPECT OF SOCIAL INFLUENCE
An interesting aspect of social influence is the ability meeting hosts have to encourage
people to perform better as they rally behind an idea

15. THE GOLDILOCKS EFFECT
It is possible to increase your own influence by simply meeting with people more frequently. The
Goldilocks effect may explain why repeated exposure to other people and ideas can increase our
affection for them. Repeated exposure to something can help people become more familiar with
it

18. THE POPULAR “DEATH BY POWERPOINT” SAYING
The popular “Death by
PowerPoint” saying sums up how
many people feel about standard
business meetings. Meetings with
fresh ideas are more likely to
engage an audience. Therefore it
becomes increasingly important
to keep your meeting content
fresh, the longer you continue to
meet with the same audience
over time, or you risk losing the
interest of your meeting
participants
2020

19. PASSION AND CREATIVITY
2020
Passion and creativity are tools that
humans can use to extend the
Goldilocks effect and plateau in a
productive space. Human
relationships are dynamic and online
communications give us the ability to
easily renew our relationships and
collaborate to build deeper
connections that can last a lifetime
When teams are able to overcome
challenges together, their relationships
grow stronger in a positive way.
Extending the goldilocks plateau is
when relationships turn in career
partnerships that can turn into
legacies of teamwork