The Anti-Meeting Mindset · By the AT OUR BEST Lab
Fewer, faster, focused meetings.
Better agendas and nicer templates haven't saved us. The Anti-Meeting Prescription™ is a new mindset for working together, and an AI Toolkit that makes it a daily habit. Type /anti-meeting and it puts the mindset to work on your real calendar and meeting notes.
A mindset, not another meeting hack.
Install in minutes. Type /anti-meeting.
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One-time payment · Works natively in Claude and ChatGPT.
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Meetings are too broken to fix.
We've tried shorter meetings, standing meetings, no-meeting Wednesdays and better agenda templates. The calendar fills up again anyway.
The problem isn't the meeting. It's the mindset that treats meeting as the default way to get work done. Change that, and the meetings change with it.
The old mindset sounds like this:
So calendars fill with meetings nobody needs to be in.
So nobody steers, and it drifts, rehashes and overruns.
So people arrive cold and the purpose turns up halfway through.
So the fix fades by next week, and the old habits win.
A new way to work together
The Anti-Meeting Mindset
Four beliefs that change how you decide whether, why and how to meet.
The best meeting is the one you don't go to.
Meeting isn't the default way to get work done. Before you accept, ask whether you'll contribute, learn or move a decision. If not, send something better than your attendance.
Put to work by: Fewer Formula™ · 6 prompts
Outcome: fewer meetings, and only the ones that need you.
Every meeting needs a commander.
Meetings drift when everyone owns them. Someone takes the conn and steers direction, depth and speed. It's a role, not a rank.
Put to work by: Submarine Commander · 9 prompts
Outcome: meetings that stay on course, go deep where it matters and finish on time.
Connection before task. Then get stuff done.
People arrive carrying the last meeting. Two minutes to connect makes the rest of the hour faster. Then start with a clear purpose and end with a Playback.
Put to work by: The Check-In · Operating Rituals · 11 prompts
Outcome: people arrive focused and leave with decisions, owners and dates.
Simple kills friction. Consistency beats intensity.
No big transformation programme. Small fixes, done every time, until the team runs them without being asked.
Put to work by: Surefire Antidotes · Always Nevers™ · 12 prompts
Outcome: simple habits your whole team keeps, week after week.
Easy to start. Three steps.
No training, no setup project, nothing to learn first. Install it in a couple of minutes, then practise the mindset every day:
The menu opens: six tactics, plus your daily and weekly routines.
"My meetings always overrun" gets you a prescription, not a lecture.
An agenda, a polite decline, a Playback, a follow-up. You review it and decide what to send.
ANTI-MEETING PRESCRIPTION
Fewer, faster, focused meetings.
1 Fewer Formula Should I even be there?
2 The Check-In Start meetings connected
3 Submarine Commander Steer direction, depth, speed
4 Surefire Antidotes Quick fixes for dying meetings
5 Operating Rituals How every meeting starts and ends
6 Always Nevers™ Your team's meeting agreement
7 Daily & Weekly Daily Dose, scorecard, makeover
8 What's hurting? Describe it, get a prescription
9 User's guide How this works
Four beliefs. Six tactics. 41 prompts.
A mindset only sticks if you practise it. Each belief becomes a tactic, and each tactic comes with prompts that put it to work on the meetings in your calendar today.
Fewer Formula™
Should I even be there? Weekly Invite Triage scores next week against Care, Curiosity and Courage, and drafts the declines for you.
The Check-In
Start meetings connected and focused. Get the right second question for this meeting, and fresh ones so it never goes stale.
Submarine Commander
Steer direction, depth and speed. A Pre-Dive Briefing before you lead, and a debrief on how you steered afterwards.
Surefire Antidotes
Quick fixes for dying meetings. Rewrite vague invite titles as outcome lines, and pick the right Bring-a-Thing.
Operating Rituals
How every meeting starts and ends. A 3-Word Agenda before, a Live Playback of decisions, owners and dates at the end.
Always Nevers™
Your team's meeting agreement. A 20-minute workshop plan to create it, and a monthly health check to keep it alive.
Plus Daily & Weekly: a Daily Dose that picks one action for each of today's meetings, a weekly Anti-Meeting Scorecard, and a four-week Meeting Makeover for your worst recurring meeting.
It reads your week, so you don't have to.
Connect your calendar or meeting-notes tool to Claude and the prompts work from your real meetings. No connections? Paste the details in and it works just the same.
Your calendar
Triage next week, fix vague invites and get today's Daily Dose from the meetings you actually have.
Your meeting notes
Draft the Playback, review last week, and see whether your team's agreements are holding.
Safe by design
It drafts and never sends. It won't accept, decline or send anything: you review every draft and decide what goes out.
What's in the box
This is for you if…
What it's NOT
Your prescription is ready.
A new mindset, easy to install, completely risk-free. If it doesn't give you back at least an hour this week, you get every penny back.
The Anti-Meeting AI Toolkit
Buying for a team? [TEAM LICENCE: price for up to N people]
Not ready yet? Try one prompt free.
Get the Live Playback prompt: end your next meeting with clear decisions, owners and dates. It works in Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Copilot.
Questions
What do I need to use it?
Claude or ChatGPT with skills turned on. [CONFIRM WHICH PLANS SUPPORT SKILLS BEFORE LAUNCH]
Does it work in ChatGPT?
Yes. The toolkit installs as a skill in both Claude and ChatGPT. [CONFIRM CHATGPT PLANS: OpenAI lists skills for Business, Enterprise, Healthcare and Edu] Using Gemini, Copilot or something else? Type copy plus any prompt code for a version you can paste in.
Do I have to connect my calendar?
No. Connections save time, but every prompt also works if you paste the details in.
Is it safe to use with meeting transcripts?
The toolkit only drafts; it never sends or changes anything. Check your company's AI policy before using meeting content with any AI tool.
I'm not a manager. Is it still for me?
Yes. Anyone who attends meetings can use the Fewer Formula, and the Playback works from any seat.
Who made this
The AT OUR BEST Lab
The AT OUR BEST Lab builds practical systems that help leaders and teams do their best work. Founded by Jason Moore, the Lab draws on 25+ years of facilitation, leadership development and transformation work with the planet's most ambitious companies. The Anti-Meeting Prescription™ puts the tactics we use in the room into everyone's hands. [ADD LOGO OR TEAM PHOTO AND ONE-LINE PROOF POINT]