Coaches Rising 276 - Rebecca Hinds: Designing Good Meetings
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Feb 20, 2026 
Rebecca Hinds, organizational behavior and future-of-work expert and author of Your Best Meeting Ever, shares practical approaches to redesigning meetings for clarity and momentum. She covers meeting rhythms and timing, the Four D test for when to meet, moving updates asynchronous, structured brainstorming, small design tweaks with big impact, and how AI can help or harm collaboration.
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Shift Status Updates Asynchronous
- Move 80–90% of routine status updates to asynchronous channels and reserve 10–15 minutes live for ambiguous or emotionally charged items.
- Ensure asynchronous updates live in a central tool with clear owners and due dates.
Brainstorm Solo, Discuss Together
- Brainstorming generates more and better ideas when people ideate independently before group discussion.
- Group sessions are best used later to debate and build on independently generated ideas.
Frame Agenda Items As Verb+Noun
- Convert each agenda item into a verb + noun (e.g., "Decide Q3 budget") so every item has a clear job.
- Use that framing to limit airtime and move asynchronously anything without a clear verb.
