Meeting scoring
A good meeting has a clear purpose, enough context for people to contribute, the right people for the work, and an appropriate use of their time. Meeting scoring assesses preparation, not how well the meeting actually went. Use it to identify useful improvements rather than adding paperwork just to raise a number.
Open the meeting score
Open a meeting and select the Meeting score indicator beside the agenda timing summary. The panel shows the overall assessment and a breakdown for agenda items.
Read the agenda-item assessment
Expand an agenda item in the panel to read its Objective, Context and Roles assessment, followed by suggestions. The overall score also includes meeting setup; it is not simply the percentage for the selected item.
These screenshots show an earlier assessment. Their 25% AOB score is not a recommended benchmark: under the current rubric, a modest timebox and an invitation for attendees to add matters count as useful preparation for an intentionally open AOB slot.
Make the purpose and context clear
Explain what participants should achieve: understand an update, review a proposal, give feedback, approve something or agree an action. Supply the relevant facts, questions, constraints or pre-reading. Brief, useful content is better than a long template full of unfilled prompts.
Prepare both sides of a decision
For a decision or approval, explain what happens if the proposal is not approved. For example: if hiring is declined, delivery may slip, features may need to be cut, or another approach will be needed. The scorer reads both the agenda body and linked decision descriptions, so this context need not be repeated. Identify who can make the decision.
Match participation and time to the purpose
Invite the people who need to contribute and allow appropriate time. Decisions and approvals need clear authority; briefings, demonstrations and bounded AOB may not need separate role assignments. Roles marked N/A are excluded rather than scored as missing. A short item can be well prepared, and a long item is not automatically better.
Use the suggestions proportionately
Useful basic preparation should generally be around 80% on the applicable agenda criteria; excellent preparation can score higher. Address genuine gaps in the supplied content. A score is guidance, not a guarantee of a good meeting or a reason to invent detail, unnecessary roles or decisions.