Who are we?

Two Agile coaches with a simple mission:    Hack Meeting Culture worldwide!

We've been working for years with different organizations worldwide.

The one recurring issue we found most organizations face is ineffective meetings.
This meeting culture tends to effect teams outside the meeting rooms as well, draining them of care and belief, hurting focus and teamwork...

We believe we have found a great way to hack this culture, hence we created the Meeting Spicer - a lightweight and effective tool to hack your meeting culture.

What's the Meeting-Spicer?

The Meeting Spicer is a pool of micro-activities (of up to 30 seconds) designed to:

1. Address team focus: help your team focus on a single aspect of meeting-dynamics at a time
2. Support sustainable improvement: Improve your meetings in small focused steps

It transforms meeting culture using:

• A set of mindful and fun-filled micro-activities.
• A dynamic group-learning process.

Being a short activity, with a varying and challenging set of practices helps your team adopt it quickly and keep on reusing it.

How to use the Meeting-Spicer?

Start your meeting by asking a participant to draw a single random Starting (Green) card and read it to the team, who should follow the instructions on the card.

End your meeting by drawing a single random Ending (Red) card with a 30-second closing activity, and ask the team to follow the instructions.

It is as simple as that!

All activities were carefully designed to help the team focus on different aspect of the meeting dynamics, and make it aware of what makes their meeting tick.

The activities have different levels of challenge (signaled by a small icon of green, yellow and red peppers), allowing you to create a deck suitable to your team.

In addition, we have included Delegated roles (Grey) cards - allowing the team members to take different roles - such as Scribe, Time-keeper, Meeting-owner, etc.

Each Role-Card contains a clear definition of the role and helpful tips on performing it.

The Time-Cards help the Time-Keeper signal how much time is left for the ongoing-topic or the meeting on its whole.

By using the Meeting Spicer, your team shares a common understanding of what makes your meetings tick (or what blocks it), all this without disruption of the meeting's agenda and order.

Why does it work?

The principles that guided us are:

1. Micro-learning: trying to change everything at the same time is usually unsustainable. Two small activities per meeting are enough and help create a long-lasting habit while not taking precious time from the meeting (that's why we stress how short it is... ;)
2. Shared-learning: Team members shape their own meeting culture based on practices they experiment together, the shared experience helps the team members align, and helps them hold each other responsible in sustaining their newly-acquired habits.
3. Gamification: The random element along with the playful cards helps the team engage time and time again.

As a by-product, the Meeting Spicer empowers the team to take an active part in the shaping of its culture, serving as a mini-coach.

What languages do we support?

We currently support French and English.

Just choose your preferred mix of editions when you order!

Other translations are in the pipeline, but we prefer, for the short term, to deal with the communities we are able to accommodate the most.

Feel free to contact us if you are interested in producing a pack in your native language!

A word about pricing

Since we'd like to have the Spicer available to all teams, we kept our price significantly lower than other coaching cards we know.

Furthermore, the new bow design allows us to charge much less for shipping than before.

How can we help you in your mission?

Often, when someone external of the organization introduces a practice, it is easier for the teams to adopt it. During the past year, we’ve animated several workshops with the Brown Bag Lunch / Lunch and Learn / Meetups formats. We’ll speak about facilitation posture in general and about the basic principles of the Spicer.

We'd love to meet you and your team in person (currently, mainly in the Paris, France area) or remotely (Via video conferencing)… Just contact-us!

How can you help us in our mission?

We would love to change meeting-culture worldwide!

Here's what you can do to help:

Back us up!

Add a second copy to your perk for the person who runs your meetings, to your manager, to your CEO, or anyone who can use it!

Tell your friends to get their own copy, as you won’t be loaning yours to anyone, because we all know people never return things, right?

Share! Help us spread the word via the “Share this project” button.

Subscribe to our website, follow us on Facebook and Twitter. (MeetingSpicer.com)

And last (but not least) _ send us a note! We'd love to hear your feedback!

May your meetings be awesome!