Facilitate effective Meetings

How often do you sit in a meeting and wonder what is being achieved?

According to Doodle's 2019 State of Meetings report, UK employees spend approximately 23 days a year in meetings, with a significant portion of those deemed unnecessary.

A report by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) estimates that ineffective meetings cost the UK economy an astounding £45 billion per year! 

So, what makes these meetings ineffective? Usually, it is because they are badly managed, with unclear agendas and poor facilitation.

To make your meetings more effective it’s worth thinking about bringing in external facilitators - especially for the more important meetings.

Get results from your meetings with Treehouse

Treehouse are experts at running effective meetings and workshops for our clients. 

Our expert facilitators work with your team to confirm the brief, and specifically understand the purpose of the meeting and what it needs to achieve. 

We then develop a meeting structure and collaboratively develop that into a detailed agenda which we call a flow (one activity flows and links with the next to achieve your outcomes). This flow includes a range of activities designed to maximise participation and leverage the brainpower of all attendees, ensuring that the right outcomes are achieved in a way that is engaging and motivating to the participants.

What’s more, our team is trained in keeping things on track, so they will work with you to flex the agenda to ensure that the meeting achieves the desired outcome.

We capture the key points of the discussions throughout the session and write up outputs so that they can be put into action back in the office.

We also offer a scribing service if you want more detailed notes or minutes, a visualisation service to create visuals of the key outcomes (e.g. your strategy or purpose expressed as a picture) and a graphic recording service too – instead of scribing with words, we scribe using pictures. 

So if you’re looking to make your meetings more effective, get in touch below!