The 25 Minute Meeting

How to use this book

This book mimics the way I run my workshops, corporate programs and hands-on sessions. It is practical and easy to read and navigate so you can implement real, but simple, changes to the way you meet.

This book is not designed to be a hefty tome you have trouble carrying around, or to be left on your bedside table to gather coffee cup stains.

Rather, it has quick tips, real-life stories, lots of no-nonsense advice, questions to reflect on how you’re working now and how you could improve, and exercises to help you implement those changes.

My suggestion for working through this book is to keep it simple and achievable. Start small and work your way up to the bigger concepts. Read the book and choose one or two things that resonate strongly with you and start to action those almost immediately. (You will thank me for this when you see how simple it really is.)

Part I is about making the decision to have 25-minute meetings, why it’s important and why it works. It will help you adopt the mindset required to make them successful.

Part II shows you how to set up a 25-minute meeting, how to show up at one and how to step up and get everyone else to contribute value, too. This is the heart of this book, packed with lots of tools and techniques to help you make your meetings productive and effective. This is what will make you successful at running 25-minute meetings.

Part III is for when your 25-minute meetings are working well and you are ready to take it another ...