Gold Skill of the Month: Meeting Prep Skill
Walk into every meeting ready, and walk out with the follow-up already written.
Here’s the thing about meetings: most of us prepare for the big ones and wing the rest. The board presentation gets three rehearsals. The “quick intro call” with a potential client often gets zero, and then we wonder why it went nowhere.
But in the world we’re in now, that quick call is often the whole game.
One meeting can swing from an unimpressed client who politely closes the door, to a partnership that brings referrals and growth for years. Same person, same thirty minutes. The only difference is whether you walked in ready.
And prep is the part that always gets squeezed. You mean to review who you’re meeting, you run out of time, and you walk in cold. Then the meeting ends, everyone says “let’s follow up,” and three days later the follow-up you meant to send is still sitting in your head while the momentum dies.
This month’s drop fixes both ends of that. The Meeting Prep Skill does two jobs.
Before a meeting, you paste in who you’re meeting and what it’s about, and it hands you a prep brief: the one goal, who’s in the room and what they want, the three things to land, the objections you’ll likely hit and how to answer them, and the line to open with.
After the meeting, you paste your messy notes and it writes the follow-up in your voice and pulls out every action item with an owner and a date.
Paid subscribers get the full prompt below, the 2-minute install, and how I actually run it.
The Meeting Prep Skill
This one works like June’s, so it asks you a few questions first and builds itself around your role and your voice. That’s the question block at the top of the prompt, so don’t strip it.
Copy the whole block below (including the first line) and paste it into Claude Cowork.
