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Meeting Design: A Tactical Guide for Productive Meetings

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Meeting Design: A Tactical Guide for Productive Meetings

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Intermediate level

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7 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

7 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Design meetings with clear outcomes and purpose

  • Apply constraints to shape productive conversations

  • Create agendas that align with team goals and needs

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November 2025

Assessments

9 assignments

Taught in English

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There are 9 modules in this course

In this section, we apply design-thinking to meetings, analyze stakeholder needs, build agendas, and adjust formats to turn chaotic updates into discussions that improve clarity, speed decisions, and maintain momentum.

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2 videos3 readings1 assignment

In this section, we compare working memory (WM) and intermediate term memory (ITM) capacities, then craft multisensory agendas and notes that boost recall and reduce post meeting rework.

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1 video4 readings1 assignment

In this section, we balance stakeholder expectations by using agenda math: counting ideas and participants, applying the groups-of-five rule, and time-boxing discussions to craft efficient, outcome-focused meetings.

What's included

1 video5 readings1 assignment

In this section, we apply facilitation to resolve design conflicts, embed conversational patterns into agendas and adopt remote-meeting recording practices to ensure transparent, outcome-focused collaboration.

What's included

1 video3 readings1 assignment

In this section, we craft four-lens questions exposing feelings, motivations, actions and systems, evaluate placement on facilitation style spectrums, and create a personalized competency roadmap to drive decisive, aligned workshops.

What's included

1 video4 readings1 assignment

In this section, we leverage purposeful meetings to expose cultural mismatches, question inconsistent employee taxonomies, and outline sustainable data normalization strategies that underpin scalable, citizen-facing digital services.

What's included

1 video5 readings1 assignment

In this section, we design structured kickoff, sales, stakeholder-interview and OKR meetings, apply metrics to assess effectiveness, and leverage questioning to build trust, surface requirements and minimize revisions.

What's included

1 video5 readings1 assignment

In this section, we align sight distance by selecting Agile scrums, check-ins or workshops, setting measurable goals, and converting surfaced conflict into insights that maintain momentum across complex projects.

What's included

1 video4 readings1 assignment

In this section, we run UAT defect log reviews, blameless postmortems and agile retrospectives, extracting root-cause insights, celebrating successes and converting reflection into continuous quality and process improvement.

What's included

1 video2 readings1 assignment

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