Chairing Brilliant Meetings If you want people to say of your meetings that ‘they just don’t get better than this’, chair them as a Thinking Environment. As team leader or manager or chair of a meeting, consider following these nine simple guidelines: At the beginning: 1 Give everyone a turn to speak. 2 Ask everyone to say what is going well in their work, or in the group’s work. Throughout: 3 Give attention without interruption during open and even fiery discussion. 4 Ask Incisive Questions to reveal and remove assumptions that are limiting ideas. 5 Divide into Thinking Partnerships when
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