All about meeting agendas (+templates!)

Whether you’re meeting with a team across a boardroom table or virtually across the world, Lucid has you covered. Its canvas is structured enough to help you stay focused, optimize productivity, and do your best work, yet creative and flexible enough to bring your best ideas to life. 

Whether you need a place to host an activity, take notes, or present a slide deck, Lucid does it all. But one thing every meeting needs? An effective agenda. Lucid offers many different agenda templates. No matter the size of your meeting or its purpose, there is an agenda suited for you. In this article, we’re breaking down several meeting agenda examples to use in your next session.

What is a meeting agenda template?

Time is money, and a lack of agenda is one of the top reasons meetings often feel unproductive. Agendas promote focus, optimize time, encourage preparation and participation, and prioritize the most important topics, so attendees leave with actionable next steps.

Yet despite their importance, less than 40% of meetings actually use agendas. The good news? Creating an agenda doesn’t have to be difficult or time-consuming. Use one of our powerful templates to kickstart your work and prepare for productivity. 

Meeting agenda templates

Team meeting agenda

If you’re looking for a standard, one-size-fits-all agenda, this team meeting agenda template is a great place to start. Featuring different color-coded boxes, it's set up to intuitively move from idea to discussion to action item for a productive meeting that allows everyone to participate and contribute.

Facilitator agenda

Our facilitator agenda template is perfect for a more involved meeting, especially when there are several areas that need to be covered under a tight time frame. This template features various sizes of blocks that correspond to the time you may want to spend on a given activity. You can label the blocks and specify the amount of time you’d like to dedicate to it, then drag and drop them in the right order for your meeting.

One-on-one meeting agenda

This agenda template is created specifically to facilitate effective one-on-one meetings. It offers space to discuss life outside of work, career growth, wins and blockers, and more. Plus, it features Lucid Cards to track task status.

The good, bad, and uncertain meeting agenda

This good, bad, and uncertain meeting agenda template provides a simple yet powerful framework to foster candid team discussions in retrospectives or check-ins. The agenda covers three topics: 

• The good: Identify wins, progress, what’s working well, or any good news.

• The bad: Share roadblocks, challenges, or collaboratively problem-solve.

• The uncertain: Call out any risks, dependencies, or questions that need to be addressed.

Product design meeting

If you’re meeting to design a product or are on a product development team, this product design meeting agenda template may be helpful. With space to brainstorm ideas, make sketches, and develop user flows, this framework is a one-stop shop for initiating any product discussion. 

Calendly meeting

If you use Calendly to schedule meetings and are looking for a corresponding virtual meeting agenda, try our meeting agenda template, created in collaboration with Calendly. It covers each aspect of a successful meeting, including pre-meeting prep and, of course, setting an agenda. It also offers space to record notes and action items.

Strategic alignment meeting agenda

This strategic alignment meeting agenda template is perfect for aligning a group of people—a team, department, or your entire organization—to a high-level vision. At the same time, it bridges the gap between the big picture and day-to-day task execution. Review goals, check the status of initiatives, and clarify priorities.