Tips for effective meetings

11 Apr 2024

We’ve created a short five step meetings guide to support individuals, teams, and leaders with scheduling, planning and conducting meetings

Over the last few years, many of us have gone through significant change in how we work and the technology we use to meet and interact with people. In many ways, it has got easy to schedule meetings and with this shift in ways of working, as a University, we are keen that colleagues are mindful about when, how and why they schedule meetings and consider whether a meeting is the best way to get the work done.

To support individuals, teams, and leaders with scheduling, planning and conducting meetings, we’ve created a short five step meetings guide. 

Please take the opportunity to have conversations within your team meetings and identify opportunities for adapting your meeting schedules to take these principles into account.

Additional resources

There are also a range of tools and guides within MS Office that can support you with: 

• understanding how you are spending your working time with Viva Insights Landing;
• help you to set your default meeting times to be shorter;
• enable you to reflect on what MS Office tools you can use to support asynchronous methods of collaboration.

Get in touch

We are keen to share more stories about how individuals and teams are effectively managing meetings and focus times – if you have ways of working that you think others will benefit from learning about, please get in touch with wellbeing@manchester.ac.uk