Rebuilding Product Team Meetings: Facilitation Beyond Just Sticky Notes

Product team meetings can feel repetitive—sticky notes, surface-level unstructured discussions, and decisions that don’t stick. What if you had a better toolkit for engaging teams and surfacing real insights? In this hands-on session, we’ll break out of the usual patterns and explore fresh ways to facilitate sessions, including using Lego. Through interactive activities, we’ll uncover the common pitfalls of product meetings and identify options to do better.

Learn how facilitation can be your superpower. Expect to build, discuss, and learn—and leave with practical techniques you can take back to your own teams.

Key Takeaways:
• Discover why product team meetings often go wrong.
• Learn how fresh facilitation techniques can unlock insights.
• Use 1-2-4-All to generate and refine ideas collaboratively.
• Apply Fist of 5 to gauge confidence and alignment quickly.
• Control the flow of conversation by passing the conch.
• Walk away with practical facilitation techniques for better meetings.
Let’s move beyond sticky notes and make product team discussions more engaging, insightful, and effective!

Agenda
6:30: Arrival & Networking
7:00: Intros & Workshop Start
8:30: Workshop Ends & Networking Resumes
9:00: Event Ends