This week, we hosted a webinar on meeting equity and inclusive meeting design with our special guest speaker, internationally renowned facilitator Leanne Hughes. 

Leanne shared her insights on creating inclusive meetings that foster collaboration and ignite innovation. 

In case you missed the webinar, you can watch the full recording here:
 

You can access the slides by downloading them at the bottom of this article. 

Here are some highlights:

We focused on meeting equity and inclusion and how these two factors play a great role in company culture, and have a real business and economic impact. 

Then, our guest speaker - Leanne Hughes introduced her approach to inclusive meetings and presented her tried and tested framework - SPARK - that provides an easy framework to structure and prepare any meeting. 

We then looked into how we can take Leanne’s framework and make meetings more inclusive using Slido. 

1. Before your meetings, try collecting inputs using polls and consider opening the Q&A in advance.
2. During your meetings, use Slido to collaborate on decision making with polls, run an inclusive Q&A by allowing anonymous questions and answer left over questions in a document after your meeting.
3. Towards the end of your meetings, run an anonymous feedback survey.

To sum up this insightful webinar, here are the top 4 takeaways:

We’d like to say a huge thank you to our guest speaker, Leanne Hughes for sharing her insightful tips and tricks with us! 

Now, it’s over to YOU!

What are your best practices for achieving meeting equity? 

Share your experience with the community in the comments below