Have better meetings with a cute PANDA

Lisa Mo Wagner
3 min readJul 15, 2020

Remember that meeting that made you feel like this:

A panda can help you make yours 100 times better and here’s how.

First of all, before any meeting you should ask yourself: Could this meeting be an email? When in doubt, write an email and see if people ask for a follow up meeting. 9 times out of 10 they won’t.

If you do have a meeting, then have a meeting PANDA with you, because a) everyone loves pandas and b) everyone loves acronyms. That’s the law. Look it up.

How to go from sad panda to happy panda in all your meetings!

P is for purpose. What is the purpose of this meeting. You can also think of it as the goal or the desired outcome. Include it into your invite so people can decide if they need to or want to join. It helps you craft a better agenda and facilitate the meeting with a clear focus.

A is for agenda. Craft your agenda in advance and include it in your invite as well. It helps to manage expectations, gives invitees a chance to prepare and again, it helps you to facilitate your meeting well. When creating your agenda keep in mind that everything takes a little…

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Lisa Mo Wagner

Product strategist, decision facilitator, team enabler, problem solver, design sprinter, agile enthusiast, intersectional feminist.