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Create a Meeting Culture Overhaul Plan

Redesign how your team meets — fewer meetings, better outcomes, more time to work.
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The Prompt

Help me overhaul our meeting culture for the following organisation:

Organisation size: [number of people]
Current meeting problem: [too many meetings / meetings run over / no decisions made / wrong people invited / no follow-up / all of the above]
Typical meeting types: [describe the recurring meetings in your week]
Work model: [remote / office / hybrid]
Current meeting tools: [Zoom / Teams / Google Meet / in-person / mix]
Team culture: [meetings as status symbol / meetings as default / meetings as necessary evil]
Leadership buy-in: [full support to change / some support / I am driving this alone]
Current average meetings per week per person: [approximate]
Target: [what would good look like]

Deliver a complete meeting overhaul plan:

MEETING AUDIT:
- How to inventory every recurring meeting
- Decision matrix: cancel / reduce frequency / shorten / keep
- Questions to ask about each meeting
- What to do with the cancelled meeting time

MEETING TAXONOMY:
For each meeting type, define:
- Purpose and appropriate use
- Optimal frequency
- Required participants
- Maximum duration
- Format (sync vs async alternative)

Types to cover:
- Decision meetings
- Information sharing meetings
- Brainstorming / creative sessions
- One-to-ones
- Status updates
- Team rituals

MEETING STANDARDS (the rules):
- No agenda, no meeting policy
- Required pre-read system
- Starting and ending on time protocol
- Decision-making framework for meetings
- How to end a meeting with clear next steps
- Follow-up and minutes standard

ASYNC-FIRST PROTOCOLS:
- Which communications move to async
- Loom / video message guidelines
- Document-based decision making process
- Response time expectations for async channels

ROLLOUT PLAN:
- How to introduce these changes without resistance
- Team workshop agenda for buy-in
- Communication template announcing changes
- 30-day pilot structure
- How to measure the improvement

MEETING FACILITATION GUIDE:
- How to run each meeting type excellently
- Facilitation techniques for common problems (dominant voices / no engagement / no decisions)
- Virtual meeting best practices

📝 Fill in the blanks

Replace these placeholders with your own content:

[number of people]
[too many meetings / meetings run over / no decisions made / wrong people invited / no follow-up / all of the above]
[describe the recurring meetings in your week]
[remote / office / hybrid]
[Zoom / Teams / Google Meet / in-person / mix]
[meetings as status symbol / meetings as default / meetings as necessary evil]
[full support to change / some support / I am driving this alone]
[approximate]
[what would good look like]

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