There can often be a love/hate relationship with meetings, particularly in an increasingly hybrid and globally connected world.
Whether they are used as communication tools or decision making vehicles, for many attendees they can feel like a necessary evil, taking them away from the real work.
The 2025 Work Trend Index Annual Report from Microsoft tells us that:
- 60% of meetings are unscheduled or ad hoc, and
- edits in PowerPoint spike 122% in the final 10 minutes before a meeting.
Meetings are fundamental for collaborative working, ensuring that decisions are not taken in silos, and job satisfaction.
But for most people, they just aren’t working.
So how can we help your meetings work better AND give you time back?
Facilitated workshops get you where you need to be
The same report shows that 53% of leaders say productivity must increase but 80% of the global workforce say they’re lacking enough time or energy to do their work.
When you need a group to make decisions, reset how they work together or explore difficult topics, an externally facilitated workshop can make the difference between real progress and another circular meeting that wastes those precious resources.
Concatena designs and runs workshops that help law‑firm leaders, clients, lawyers and business services teams surface blind spots, work with different styles and perspectives, and leave with clear outcomes and next steps.
And, ultimately, more time to get the day job done.
The roadmap to meeting success
First step, you tell us what you are trying to achieve. Then, we will:
- help you decide the right people to have in the room
- design useful exercises and processes to build towards your objective
- facilitate the session so you can focus on content, not process
- capture clear outcomes and next steps
It makes a world of difference.
These workshops are often used for team away days, partner or leadership offsites, or for “stuck” teams where relationships or working styles are getting in the way of good work.
They can also be great for giving real value to clients as part of client service team days or client onboarding – leaving both you and your client able to make the most out of the relationship.
Want to go it alone?
We can help you there too. We can provide training on meeting facilitation and good hybrid working practices to key team members so that you can make improvements internally, as well as templates for decision making exercises or approaches.