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This Meeting Sucks

This Meeting Sucks

By: Lauren Green
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Welcome to This Meeting Sucks®, the podcast providing tangible tools to “un-suck” your meetings.

© 2025 This Meeting Sucks
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Episodes
  • S4E7: Aligning on Process
    Jun 30 2025

    If your team struggles to see results in new initiatives or strategic plans, it’s time to consider how these fit into the work you do already. In this episode, we walk through the fourth/final part of the third phase in our MeetingMakers Framework: Aligning, focused on process, and give you a simple process for reflecting on and improving your processes as a team.

    Read along with the episode on YouTube.

    EPISODE RESOURCES:
    Process Mapping SessionLab Agenda
    Process Mapping Template Package
    About LEGO SERIOUS PLAY
    Find a LEGO SERIOUS PLAY facilitator
    LEGO SERIOUS PLAY Training from SERIOUSWORK
    Business Model Canvas Template
    Osterwalder and Pigneur's Business Model Generation (book)
    Business Model Canvas Training
    Create a Customer Journey Map on Canva
    Tom Wujec’s Draw Toast TED Talk

    🔎 Explore the MeetingMakers Framework

    Support the show

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    👉 Follow MeetingMakers on LinkedIn
    👥 Join the MeetingMakers Community on Facebook.

    Written by Lauren Green and produced by Caitlin Murray.

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    29 mins
  • S4E6: Aligning on Customers
    May 26 2025

    For any team, the customer or user is central to everything you do. Understanding who your team supports at a deep level is critical to ensuring that what your team does achieves real success. In this episode, we walk through part three of the third phase in our MeetingMakers Framework: Aligning, focused on customers. We discuss the importance of centralizing customers in strategic conversations, delivering value, and meeting their needs.

    Read along with the episode on YouTube.

    EPISODE RESOURCES:
    Design Sprint SessionLab Agenda
    Design Sprint Template Package
    The LUMA System
    IDEO Thinking
    Stanford d.school Tools
    Eric Ries’ The Lean Startup (book)

    🔎 Explore the MeetingMakers Framework

    Support the show

    📬 Get notified when a new episode drops.
    👉 Follow MeetingMakers on LinkedIn
    👥 Join the MeetingMakers Community on Facebook.

    Written by Lauren Green and produced by Caitlin Murray.

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    33 mins
  • S4E5: Aligning on the Present
    Apr 28 2025

    Jumping into goal-setting without a clear understanding of the present sets the stage for misalignment and missed opportunities. In this episode, we’ll walk you through part two of the third phase in our MeetingMakers Framework: Aligning, focused on the present. We discuss the importance of aligning on internal and external realities to set a foundation for effective strategic planning and achieving your goals.

    Read along with the episode on YouTube.

    EPISODE RESOURCES:
    SLOR Analysis SessionLab Agenda
    SLOR Analysis Template Package
    Context Map Template from The Grove
    Pre-meeting Survey Template

    🔎 Explore the MeetingMakers Framework

    Support the show

    📬 Get notified when a new episode drops.
    👉 Follow MeetingMakers on LinkedIn
    👥 Join the MeetingMakers Community on Facebook.

    Written by Lauren Green and produced by Caitlin Murray.

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    20 mins
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