7 Meeting Ideas that Improve Wellbeing & Performance
We’ve been supporting companies with meetings, workshops and keynote talks since 2017.
Over the years, we’ve picked up a range of methods that can not only help to improve team meetings but also lead to improving wellbeing and company performance.
So in this blog, there are 7 meeting ideas to help improve workplace wellbeing and performance in your next team meeting.
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7 Meeting Ideas that Improve Wellbeing & Performance (Video)
7 Meeting Ideas that Improve Wellbeing & Performance
- Appreciation
- Prioritisation
- Stress Check-in
- Confidence Discussion
- Gratitude Sharing
- Breathing Exercises
- Compliment Chain
7 Meeting Ideas that Improve Wellbeing & Performance (Video)
7 Meeting Ideas that Improve Wellbeing & Performance
1. Appreciation
One of the biggest contributing factors to people leaving their jobs or not enjoying them is that they don’t feel appreciated.
We’ve spoken to many employees over our time, and those who don’t feel appreciated are often looking for another job.
The CIPD estimates that replacing an employee typically costs a minimum of £1,500 in recruitment costs alone.
And that’s just the visible spend.
The real cost often includes time spent interviewing, onboarding, and the productivity dip while a new staff members settle in.
These are costs that could be reduced if employees felt more appreciated.
Showing appreciation is a win for everyone, and this can be done in a range of ways.
A heartfelt thank you to team members.
A gesture of appreciation that employees will feel empowered by.
Leaders don’t always need a big budget to show appreciation.
It can often be achieved in the small human interactions that may be taken for granted.
If you need help with this, we deliver a gratitude workshop and webinar that helps teams connect and share appreciation for one another.
2. Prioritisation
Many employees have never-ending to-do lists, and it can often be difficult to work on the most important tasks all the time.
Additionally, what is important to one team member may be more or less important to another team member.
Having a team meeting on prioritisation helps colleagues understand what tasks are most essential.
Having a discussion on this gives employees insight from others that they may never have realised.
A great tool to help individuals prioritise effectively is the Eisenhower Matrix method.
If you’d like a tool to help you do this or you just want to find out more, check out our Free Eisenhower Matrix Tool.
Additionally, if you’d prefer a workshop to help your team prioritise more effectively, check out our “Master Workplace Productivity Workshop”
3. Stress Check-in
Some workplaces believe that if we don’t talk about stress, it will magically disappear.
However, that couldn’t be further from the truth.
We know that some job roles can feel more pressured than others, and talking about them in a team meeting can help employees feel better about themselves.
When problems are shared, it helps individuals alleviate pressure and get things off their chest.
It also provides an opportunity for colleagues to understand stressors and provide additional support where possible.
Imagine a colleague is stressing about a work task that is causing them a problem, but you happen to have had the same problem and found a solution.
In a short conversation, the stressor that was bothering your colleague has now been resolved by a short and simple discussion about stress.
We deliver a Coping with Stress Workshop that provides frameworks and methods to help teams reduce their stress.
Why not organise this for your next team meeting?
4. Confidence Discussion
Discussing confidence in your next team meeting could be the topic that positively changes the way a team member tackles their day.
Many individuals lack confidence at times, and discussing this in a team meeting can help employees to understand the things that may be holding them back.
Knowing what is causing a lack of confidence is the first step in building confidence in that particular area.
To get started with this in your team meeting, why not start a discussion around the things that employees are confident in?
Discuss how these individuals were able to build confidence in the things their confident in.
Then discuss how they can use those same principles to apply to the things they lack confidence in.
We deliver a “Build Unstoppable Confidence Workshop” that can be part of your next team meeting if you’re a forward-thinking company that wants to support its teams with this.
5. Gratitude Sharing
When was the last time you and your colleagues took a moment to think about the things you are grateful for within your workplace?
For most people, at the very minimum, a job allows them to earn an income and support themselves.
But when employees look deep enough, there are often many reasons to be grateful in a workplace.
Discussing gratitude in your next team meeting can not only help bring colleagues together, but also highlight the positives that come with the job role.
Gratitude has been linked with better mental health, reducing stress, improving sleep, reducing depression and more!
If you’d like a facilitator to deliver a session on gratitude in your next team meeting, check out our “Harnessing Gratitude Workshop”
6. Breathing Exercises
Performing a simple breathing exercise in your next team meeting could be the calming moment that everyone needs.
Breathing exercises help to reduce stress, calm the nervous system and put individuals in a more relaxed state.
Doing this as part of a meeting can help set the tone for the session and allow colleagues to approach it calmly and professionally.
There is a range of breathing exercises, but the key is that individuals are taking a moment of peace as part of the meeting.
Why not try this in your next team meeting.
Check out these 5 breathing exercises to get started.
7. Compliment Chain
The last time someone complimented you, how did it make you feel?
Chances are that it made you feel good, happy, appreciated and more!
So why not create a compliment chain as part of your next meeting?
Genuine compliments make us feel good, and spreading this positivity in your workplace could work wonders.
Ask employees to think of a compliment for the person on their left.
Then, go round, one by one and get individuals to share their compliments.
This is a fun and heartwarming activity, and one that can help to improve colleague relationships, wellbeing and performance.
These meeting ideas are a great place to get started in improving the wellbeing an performance of your workforce.
If you’d like more structured ways of improving wellbeing and performance, then why not get in touch to see how we can help support your workforce?
A happy workforce is a productive workforce.
Tyler Lowe – Workplace Wellbeing Meeting Faciliator
