Assessing your meeting skills

The first step in developing your skills is to take some time to reflect on your general effectiveness in meetings.

Stop and answer the following statements with just one of the words in the Scale of Words. Remember, the more honest your answers are, the better understanding you will have of your meeting approach. That will allow you to make the best choices of actions to take for improvement.

Personal meeting assessment

Score interpretation

Give yourself the following score for the words you identified with each statement:

• Never: 2 points

• Rarely: 4 points

• Sometimes: 6 points

• Often: 8 points

• Always: 10 points

The higher your score, the more effective you are at leading meetings and participation. The lower your score, the more you need to examine when to either amp up your preparation for meetings or increase your extroverting during your meetings.

Let's explore some of the practical and actionable ways you can do this.