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Meeting
Situations
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Questions to ask
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1.
Check meeting
progress
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How is everyone feeling about our meeting progress?
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Are we at a point that we need to take a different
direction?
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Does anyone think this meeting is a waste of time and
we should adjourn?
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2.
Clarify Understanding
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Does everyone have the same understanding of where we
are right now?
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Do we need to summarize now?
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Let’s go around the room and get everyone’s opinion.
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3.
Off Agenda
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Have we digressed from the agenda?
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Does this topic need to be moved to a “parking it?”
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4.
Pace
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Is the meeting pace too slow, too fast?
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What can we do to improve the pace?
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5.
Reflective Pause
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Let’s pause and recap to make sure we have not missed
anything important?
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What new thought/idea did anyone hear that you
would like to pursue?
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What is on everyone’s mind right now?
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6.
Participation
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Is everyone comfortable with participation levels?
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What can we do to improve participation?
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7.
Priorities
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Does the work we are proposing have high, medium or
low priorities?
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Does the work align with other priorities?
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8.
No Decision
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We have not made a decision yet. How can we remove
barriers to decision making?
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9.
Action Items
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Is everyone committed to the decision and the action
items to implement?
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10.
Follow-up
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What follow-up is needed for each action item and who
will do it?
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