How to Run Better Meetings That Actually Lead Somewhere - Episode 10

Meetings take up a huge amount of leadership time, but they do not always receive enough leadership attention. In this episode of The Leadership & Management Reset Podcast, Sharon explores how to run better meetings in a way that creates clearer purpose, better contribution, stronger decisions and more useful follow-through. This is not about creating perfect agendas or making meetings more formal for the sake of it. It is about recognising that meetings are one of the places where leadership culture becomes visible. Meetings show whether people's voices matter, whether challenge is welcomed, whether decisions are clear, and whether accountability is strengthened or avoided. When meetings are vague, repetitive or dominated by the same voices, they affect energy, trust, respect, decision-making and ownership. In this episode, Sharon explores: Why meetings are a leadership issue, not just an admin task The difference between a meeting topic and a meeting purpose Why different meetings need different outcomes How to decide who genuinely needs to be at the table Why the most useful person in the room is not always the most senior person How to create the conditions for honest contribution Why psychological safety matters when people are expected to challenge, question or disagree How to support different ways of contributing, including reasonable adjustments for neurodivergent team members Why leaders need to hold the meeting without doing all the talking How to stop discussion being mistaken for agreement A simple way to reset one meeting that is not currently working well Sharon also introduces The Meeting Reset Template, a simple resource to help you review and redesign one meeting so that it has clearer purpose, better contribution routes, clearer decisions and stronger follow-through. Download The Meeting Reset Template here: https://preview.mailerlite.io/forms/361862/187541405195831144/share Find out more about Sharon's work: https://www.ownyourleadership.co.uk