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The art of Effective Meetings

Original price was: €219.00.Current price is: €39.00.

Effective meetings are crucial in the games industry, but poorly run ones waste time. This course shares strategies to ensure meetings are purposeful, inspiring, and productive across virtual, in-person, and hybrid settings.

⏲ 2 hours
📖 26 lessons
📊Beginner/Intermediate

Course Summary

Meetings are essential to collaborative work in the games industry, but ineffective meetings can drain time and energy. This course offers strategies to make meetings more purposeful and productive, whether they are held virtually, in-person, or in a hybrid format.

It begins with an overview of why we hold meetings, alternatives to traditional meetings, and what makes high-performing teams successful.

From there, you’ll learn how to structure meetings — before, during, after, and even in between—to enhance team alignment and project clarity. We’ll explore practical tools to boost focus and collaboration, examine roles and responsibilities, and discuss how to contribute effectively, even if you’re not leading the meeting.

You’ll also gain insight into managing the attendee list, selecting the appropriate setting for various meeting types, and establishing an efficient weekly or monthly meeting schedule. In the final module, you’ll develop a personalised to-do list of actionable strategies to immediately improve your meetings, making them more efficient, inclusive, and valuable to your team’s creative goals.

Course leader: John Johansson

Your leader for this course, John Johansson, is a University lecturer in project management and leadership who educates and lectures about digitalisation and recruitment. Besides loving to teach, he loves martial arts, travelling with family, and caring for their hens.

Course Outline

Module 1: Overview of Meetings

  • Introduction
  • I hate meetings
  • Why do we have meetings?
  • High-performing teams
  • Alternatives to meetings
  • How can I contribute?
    • Quiz: Test your knowledge

Module 2: The structure of your Meetings

  • Physical, digital or hybrid meetings?
  • The structure of a meeting
  • Tools to use in meetings
    • Quiz: Test your knowledge

Module 3: Before, during, after and in between

  • Before the meeting
  • During the meeting
  • What kind of meeting is this?
  • Everyone on the same page
  • Sensemaking
  • After meeting
    • Quiz: Test your knowledge

Module 4: Attendees and the meeting place

  • Right attendees
  • Meeting shredders
  • AI
    • Quiz: Test your knowledge

Module 5: Setting up a weekly or monthly structure

  • A few words about efficiency
  • Your structure
  • Improve meetings over time
    • Quiz: Test your knowledge

Module 6: Contributing to Meetings

  • Who is responsible for what?
  • Levels
  • Facillitation
  • A3 – The exercise
    • Quiz: Test your knowledge

Module 7: Your to-do list

  • Your to-do list
Course modules

Introduction, I hate meetings, Why do we hate meetings?, High performing teams, Alternative to meetings, How can I contribute?, Physical, digital or hybrid meetings, The structure of a meeting, Tools to use in meetings, Before meeting, During meeting, What kind of meeting is this?, Everyone on the same page, Sensemaking, After meeting, Right Attendees, Meeting shredders, AI, A few words about efficiency, Your structure, Improve meetings over time, Who is responsible for what?, Levels, Facilitation, A3 – The exercise, Your to-do list

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