Meeting Insights from Mamie
- Dorit Perry
- Apr 19, 2016
- 2 min read
Every week we share best practices on meetings, teamwork, and leadership through our blog. This week, we’ve compiled posts that Mamie Kanfer Stewart, Meeteor Founder and CEO, has written for other publications on how to make the most out of meetings.
As a meeting organizer, have you ever led a meeting that didn’t go the way you expected? As a meeting participant, have you ever felt like a meeting was a waste of time? We thought so. Here, Mamie offers ways to correct the disconnect between meeting leaders and participants which costs your team time, energy, and morale. Learn the three questions to think through for your agenda and you’ll already be on your way to a more effective meeting experience. Read on.
Once your agenda is thoughtfully in place, it’s important to take notes during a meeting. In this piece, Mamie shares how to organize your notes to keep everyone on the same page and to help the team achieve and follow through on the meeting results. Keep Reading.
Keep Up the Energy: 3 Part Series
Mamie wrote a three-part series to help facilitators keep participants energized and engaged during long retreat sessions. You can also apply these strategies to longer business meetings.
It can be easy to forget the needs of introverts in an extrovert-centric culture. Yet everyone benefits when all voices are in the room, not just the loudest ones. Introduce small group discussion into longer meetings to fix this oversight. Read More.
People learn differently. One of the theories is to address visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and textual learning styles. Despite the research which questions these four learning styles, there is value in presenting information in various formats to satisfy different learning preferences and to fit the content itself. Find more inspiration in the infographic in this article. Read More.
The mind-body connection is real. Here, Mamie suggests how to incorporate physical activity through the setup of the room and the structure of the meeting to keep people engaged. Read More.
Whether you’re a regular reader or just finding us for the first time, we hope you find our content useful and engaging.If you’d like to see Mamie’s writing appear in other blogs or publications, please contact us at info@meeteor.com or tweet at us at @meeteorHQ.
Here’s to better meetings for everyone!
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mamie's insights on meeting agendas and note-taking are practical. the point about structuring agendas around decision-shaped objectives is particularly useful, moving beyond just having an agenda. the tips for engaging introverts and varying formats for different learning styles are thoughtful additions for any facilitator. Traducir Imagen
Enjoyed your insights! For a fun mental break between meetings, try this daily 12-Letter Word Puzzle —it’s a quirky challenge that’s surprisingly addictive and sharpens your vocabulary.
Always thoughtful pieces from Mamie. Side note for the Meeteor team: between the product, the Meeting Insights series, the blog (meeting facilitation, agendas, decision-making, async collaboration, remote leadership), the resources library, the speaking content from Mamie, and the case studies, the site has built one of the most coherent single-niche content libraries in workplace collaboration — but team leads researching at the consideration stage face a wall of nav. A "Find Your Meeting Problem → Get the Fix" sortable landing page (filter by symptom — too many meetings / meetings without decisions / hybrid alignment / async overload + by team size + by role — IC / manager / exec → matched blog + relevant product feature + tool…
Mamie's "every meeting needs a decision-shaped objective" framing is the one mental model that's actually moved the needle for my team's meeting culture — most meeting-efficiency content stops at "have an agenda" without addressing what the agenda is for. I help with content for a small remote-first SaaS and we use an NanoBanana AI image and short-video tool to produce visual frameworks and meeting-best-practice infographics for our internal training (stock photography for "remote meetings" is uniformly the same Zoom-tile grid — generated illustrations let us show actual scenarios like an effective async update or a well-run hybrid stand-up). Sharing this with our ops team.
Just over my morning coffee, I was surprised by Mamie's focus on small group discussions for introverts and incorporating movement Image 2