Don’t know how to transform your usual meetings to effective ones by visualizing goals, problems, key focus areas and solutions? Help your team to focus on finding best solutions using clear graphics. How to move to more effective problem-solving meeting? 1. Prepare problems list 2. Brainstorm the solutions 3. Choose the best solution and plan actions 4. Illustrate steps over time and review status regularly Keep track of your business meetings with the easily editable template. Use only PowerPoint and your creativity :) Look for more examples and inspiration on our blog: https://blog.infodiagram.com

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2. Help your team to focus
on finding key solutions.
Leading a problem solving
discussion?

3. Help your team to focus
on finding key solutions.
See how to use clear
presentation visuals
to stay on track and avoid
off-topic discussions
Leading a problem solving
discussion?

4. Prepare list of problems
Towards better problem solving meetings
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5. Problems our marketing is facing:
• Lack of Awareness
• Not Enough Sales
• Trying to be present on too many social channels
• Not on the First Page of Google
• Lack of marketing resources
[source: abundantmarketingsm.com]
Prepare the list of
problems that you want
to discuss during the
meeting

6. Problems our marketing is facing:
• Lack of Awareness
• Not Enough Sales
• Trying to be present on too many social channels
• Not on the First Page of Google
• Lack of marketing resources
Choose the top 3 issues to tackle.
Don’t try solve too many
problems at once.
Prepare the list of
problems that you want
to discuss during the
meeting

7. Put the final list into more visually appealing
form instead of bullet-point.
Help the audience to focus.

8. Describe & prioritize the problems
Use color coding
or priority tags

9. Let team brainstorm the solutions
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Towards better problem solving meetings

10. IDEA 1
Promote our
product in
supermarkets
during week
before Christmas
IDEA 2
Send newsletter
to our regular
customers
IDEA 5
Send our
representative
to the industry
conference
IDEA 4
Post promotions
on social media
platforms
IDEA 3
Announce the
sale on our
website
The
challenge
Do the brainstorming on
paper flipchart. Paper
supports creativity. Put the
most voted ideas on a slide

11. Put the best solution on a slide & plan actions
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Towards better problem solving meetings

12. Write down the
selected solution for
each problem on a
slide

13. What
actions
By who
By when
Delegate
responsibilities

14. Illustrate actions over time – review status
regularly
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Towards better problem solving meetings

15. Use such slide on regular meetings
to remind the focus tasks and status
to the team.
Status Who

16. Use such slide on regular meetings
to remind the focus tasks and status
to the team.
Status Who
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17. Use such slide on regular meetings
to remind the focus tasks and status
to the team. Measure progress.
Status Who
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PP
90%
50%
10%

18. Prepare list of problems
Summary
Let team brainstorm
the solutions
Put the best solution on a slide & plan
actions
Illustrate actions over time – review status
regularly
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