S1E4: Outline Your Meeting

You’ve decided to meet and you’ve prepped for your meeting. It’s time to outline your meeting. In this episode, we’ll take you through all the steps of creating your outline including choosing a medium, establishing outcomes, creating flow, timing and energy shifts, and how to open and close the meeting.

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EPISODE RESOURCES:
Dancing with MURAL (blog)
Meeting Outline and Facilitation Guide Template (Google Doc)
Sam Kaner’s Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making (book)
Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff’s Future Search Model (book)
5 Steps to Stay Focused When Teaching Online (HBP article)
Designing Meeting Agreements with Visual Tools (blog)
Meeting Agreement Matching (free PDF)

Chapters

• 0:00 Episode Intro
• 1:58 Choose a Medium
• 2:40 Visual Episode Notes
• 3:32 Meeting Outcomes
• 4:40 Meeting Flow
• 6:37 Timing and Energy Shifts
• 10:05 Opening a Meeting
• 12:56 Closing
• 14:17 Final Outline Guidance