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title: Essential Types of Business Meetings Checklist | Pinnacle
description: Your quick guide to the essential types of business meetings your organization needs. Take the fluff out of meetings with this quick reference guide.
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# discover the power of meetings

Unlock your team's potential by elevating the way you meet.

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## your meetings will improve with:

### Clear Expectations

The "WHY" of the meeting

### Active participation

Employees will want to be involved

### Accountability

Goals and Rocks are addressed

### stickiness

It will resonate with your team

### Quality

More productive meetings also mean fewer meetings

## Make it work for your team

Customize your meeting agendas and cadences to be the most effective for your team and your goals. Meeting strategies develop along with your team. With the help of a Certified Pinnacle Business Guide, swap and develop your meeting formulas to suit your growth.  

### There are two reasons why meetings are so bad... 

Lack of drama and lack of context and purpose.

### drama

The key to making meetings more engaging—and less boring—lies in identifying and nurturing the  
natural level of conflict that should exist. By putting the right issues—often the most controversial ones—on the table at the beginning of their meetings, you can create genuine, compelling drama and prevent your team from checking out.

### Context & purpose

Unfortunately, no amount of drama will matter if leaders don’t create the right context for their meetings and clarify to team members why the meeting is taking place and what is expected of them. To create context, leaders must differentiate between different types of meetings.

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## The Pinnacle Principle

*People + Purpose + Playbooks + Perform = Profit*

Pinnacle's Baseline Assessment will idenify where there is room for improviement in your organization. A Certified Business Guide can work with your leadership team to build a custom Operating System for you, based off of your resuts.

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### Tommy Battle

[TBattle@FinancialGuide.com](mailto:tbattle@financialguide.com?subject=CEPA%20Outreach)

Serving Virginia and North Carolina

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### Gregory Cleary

[Greg@Pinnacle.Guide](mailto:Greg@Pinnacle.Guide?subject=CEPA%20Outreach)

Serving Minnesota and Florida

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### Tom Doll

[Tom@TDPartners.co](mailto:Tom@TDPartners.co?subject=CEPA%20Outreach)

Serving the Western US

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### George Hodges-Fulton

[George@GHF.LLC](mailto:George@GHF.LLC?subject=CEPA%20Outreach)

Serving Washington DC Metro Area

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### Craig Huston

[cCaig@HustonCG.com](mailto:cCaig@HustonCG.com?subject=CEPA%20Outreach)

Serving Florida, New Mexico, and California

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### Nick Janus

[Nick@Ashbury-Consulting.com](mailto:Nick@Ashbury-Consulting.com?subject=CEPA%20Outreach)

Serving Washington and Oregon

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### Ben Stewart

[Ben@benjaminStewart.org](mailto:Ben@benjaminStewart.org%20?subject=CEPA%20Outreach)

Serving Arkansas

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### David Trent

[David@acap.bz](mailto:David@acap.bz?subject=CEPA%20Outreach)

Serving Arkansas and Texas

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## There is more to unlock!

This Tool introduces three important meeting structures your team should consider. Eight more customizable meeting structures exist that can maximize your team's meetings.

A Guide can introduce you to these structures and unlock more!

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