The Containing Meeting: A 45-Minute Agenda Template

A reorg lands, a launch slips, two teams get fused, and you have to run the meeting anyway. Tighten the agenda and push the pace, and the anxiety in the room never gets addressed, it just leaks out afterward in the hallway and in work that slows down for reasons no one can name. This is the agenda for that meeting.What you get. A 45-minute meeting agenda, six timed movements from open to close, with what to say, what to ask, and the failure mode to avoid in each one. Print-ready, one page.Why you want it. A reorg lands, a launch slips, two teams get fused, and you have to run the meeting anyway. The usual move is a tighter agenda and a faster pace, and the anxiety in the room never gets addressed, it just leaks out afterward in the hallway and in work that slows down for reasons no one can name.How it helps you. You run a meeting that holds the room's anxiety long enough for people to think instead of react, and you walk out with one real decision instead of ten items no one owns.What's inside. Six timed movements (Open, Name What Is Here, The Real Work, Hold the Hard Thing, Decide One Thing, Close) with exact minute counts totaling 45. Verbatim lines to say and questions to ask in each. A named failure mode to avoid per movement. A before-the-meeting prep checklist and a signs-it-worked close-out.Credit toward the course. The EUR10 you spend here comes off the full Lead in the Present course (EUR199). You never pay twice.Format: one-page agenda template, print-ready. 45 minutes. Single-user license. No sign-up.Add coaching. This instrument is also available with a 1:1 working session, choose +1 hour or +2 hours at checkout.Copyright: All course content is the intellectual property of Charles LaBelle and CLaB3. All rights reserved. No part of this course may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted without prior written permission. 2026 Charles LaBelle / CLaB3.Refund Policy: No refunds. This is a digital intellectual property product. Upon purchase, you receive immediate access to the full course. Because the content is delivered digitally and cannot be returned, all sales are final. Questions before purchasing: charles@charleslabelle.comLicensing: Individual purchase grants a single-user, non-transferable license. Use in organizational training programs, team delivery, or group facilitation requires a separate licence. Contact charles@charleslabelle.com to discuss institutional or cohort arrangements.

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