Better Meetings

Practical tools to help you contribute with confidence, facilitate better conversations, and make meetings more productive.

Most of us spend hundreds of hours in meetings every year – but almost nobody is ever taught how to make them work well.

Do your meetings ever feel like this?

• The same few people do most of the talking.
• Conversations drift without reaching a clear outcome.
• You leave wondering why the meeting happened at all.
• You have ideas but don’t always find the right moment to contribute.
• Running a meeting feels harder than it should.

If any of that sounds familiar, you’re not alone.

Most of us spend hours every week in meetings, yet very few people are ever taught how to make them work well.

Better Meetings is a practical, highly participatory workshop designed to help you become more confident and effective in the meetings you’re already part of.

Whether you occasionally lead meetings or simply want to have more influence within them, you’ll leave with practical tools you can start using immediately.

You’ll learn how to

✔ Design meetings with a clear purpose and outcome

✔ Contribute confidently without dominating

✔ Encourage quieter voices into the conversation

✔ Keep discussions focused and moving

✔ Handle common meeting dynamics with more confidence

✔ Leave meetings with clearer decisions and actions

Rather than relying on personality or seniority, you’ll discover practical facilitation tools that help meetings become more collaborative, engaging and effective.

This workshop is for you if…

• You’re part of a team that spends a lot of time in meetings.
• You occasionally chair or facilitate meetings.
• You’d like to contribute more confidently.
• You want meetings to be less frustrating and more productive.
• You work remotely, in-person or in a hybrid team.

This workshop isn’t about becoming a professional facilitator or meeting chair.

It’s about developing practical skills that make everyday meetings better – for you and everyone around you.

What to expect

This is an interactive session.

We’ll mix discussion, practical exercises, reflection and small-group activities. We’ll also introduce a simple Better Meetings template that you can take away and start using immediately.

No lectures.

No death by PowerPoint.

Just practical ideas, useful conversations and tools you’ll actually use.

What people say

“Practical, well-structured and immediately applicable… the learning has translated into action, and we are already seeing the benefits through more effective, purposeful and better-run meetings across the business”

Alan Paget, CEO, Integrated Skills Ltd

“I am really excited to step into my meetings next week having just attended your session.”

Sophie, Head of Facilitation & Client Services

Meet your facilitators

Dan Simpson and Nigel Berman are experienced facilitators who have worked with hundreds of leaders and teams across tech, the public sector, and purpose-driven organisations. Warm, grounded and engaging, they combine practical tools with a person-centered approach that helps teams learn by doing.

Leave with

• A practical framework for planning and participating in meetings
• A Better Meetings template to take away
• Greater confidence speaking up and facilitating discussions
• Practical techniques you can use immediately
• Fresh perspectives from other participants