Wish you could have me in your back pocket? Now you can!

Running the Manager Training Series is one of my very favorite things to do ... but I’m not going to lie, this cohort last year had me at the brink.

We were talking about department meetings in general, and they had sooooo many questions.

What would I include and not include?
Who should run the meeting?
Should they have a prepared agenda?
Should the manager hosting the meeting be the only one talking?
Is a team builder or icebreaker even necessary for an established team?
What about notes or minutes, if yes, who should take them?
And, on and on...

This line of questioning went on into delirium. But it did make me ponder their dilemma. Learning about the higher-level stuff was great. But they also wanted to know precisely how I would structure a departmental meeting if I were hosting one.

By the end of the line of questions, it was clear that they wanted my EXACT FORMULA for an effective team meeting. And, friends, this is how The Ideal Team Meeting formula was incubated.

Later that day, I scratched out my ideas and added them to our private LinkedIn group. You know what? It worked!

The next week a participant said, "Hey Amy, I tried your ideal team meeting format and it worked! Starting with that team builder that you recommended the format worked for my team."

Thanks to this cohort, I’ve been deliberating on making more guides like this for SIX MONTHS. Over winter break, I recorded an on-demand that answers the question of exactly what you should include, how, and why. This also led me to plan a series of related classes that will support your curiosity in taking a deeper dive into some management tactics that we talk about at a high level during the Manager Training Series.

And now, I’m very pleased to announce that Building Blocks to an Effective Team Meeting is ready and available for you to make your meetings that much better.

I’ve tested this with a few clients, and here is what one of them had to say: