Masterful Meetings with AI:

Making our meetings engaging, productive & future-ready

This highly practical session blends timeless meeting-management fundamentals with the latest features of AI (applicable to ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and enterprise LLMs). You’ll learn how to keep the human conversation front-and-centre while letting AI handle the heavy lifting—agenda prep, real-time insights, and follow-through—so every meeting feels shorter, sharper, and more strategic.

Content is adapted to comply with and reinforce your organization’s AI policy and guidelines.

The virtual version of this course is 2 hours and the in-person version is 3 hours.

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Better, Faster Meeting Prep

  • AI Integration. Leverage AI-accelerated agendas and pre-reads so everyone arrives informed and focused (and get this prep done faster, with less overwhelm).
  • Humanfirst prep habits. Pair a concise meetingprep checklist with consciously scheduled prep time—AI can help, but the thinking is yours—so you arrive ready, not rushed.
  • Bonus takeaway for advanced AI users: You’ll receive a template for creating your own  meeting prep customGPT/ agent that supports you in taking your team meetings to the next level.
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A More Engaging, Interactive Meeting Conversation

  • Build rapport, psychological safety and engagement from the first minute by using AI to generate creative icebreakers tailored to your meeting theme and team culture.
  • Employ powerful questions (with the help of AI) following a four-step meeting flow guideline to keep meetings on purpose, on track and productive.
  • Best practices for stimulating conversation, coaxing voices off mute and gaining inclusive input. (including strategies for managing the hybrid meeting conversation)
  • Use AI transcription and summarization features to free participants to listen, think, and collaborate.
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Post-meeting Action & Follow-through

  • Use AI Generated transcripts to support clear action items and accountability.
  • Leverage AI Coaching for continuous improvement. Run transcripts through AI to receive feedback and actionable insights on what could be improved for next time.
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Reducing Some Meeting Time

  • Tactful meeting negotiations. Combine powerful questions with AIdrafted replies to diplomatically negotiate/decline some lowervalue invites—saving time without burning bridges.
  • Use AI Meeting Summaries to help optional participants – those who don’t need to participate but do want to stay in the loop – skip the meeting without missing anything.

Optional Exercise: Your AI Meeting Rules of Engagement

A rapid, collaborative exercise (20–30 min) where participants co-create guidelines for ethical, productive AI use in their meetings—ensuring transparency, data security, and respect for human connection.

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