Recurring talking points on Teams meetings?

Teams meetings can handle the recurring meeting itself, but the agenda structure is the harder part.

You can use Loop or OneNote to create a shared agenda template and keep a set of recurring talking points in there, then add one-off topics before each meeting. That works reasonably well if you only have a few mentor/mentee pairs, but it does rely on people remembering to copy things forward and maintain the structure.

For something more systematic, I’d look at tools that sit inside Teams and are built around recurring 1:1s or mentoring conversations. Teamflect is a solid option for this and I know it has what youre looking for, but I heard 15five also has a solid meeting intelligence tool. Also heard good things about Fellow.

That distinction between recurring and one-off topics sounds small, but it makes these meetings much easier to keep consistent without every agenda feeling identical.

You want each mentor-and-mentee meeting to start with the same core prompts while allowing one-time agenda items. Teams does not currently provide a rule that resets selected agenda rows for every occurrence, but a recurring meeting plus collaborative notes gives you a supported structure. Create a separate recurring series for each pair and put standing prompts in the meeting description so they remain visible on future invitations. Open the series chat, create collaborative notes, and add sections for Standing topics, This meeting, Decisions, and Follow-up tasks. Before each occurrence, copy the standing prompts into that occurrence’s agenda and add one-off items beneath them. During the meeting, attendees can edit notes together and assign tasks with mentions; assigned tasks can surface in Planner and To Do. Keep completed notes under the relevant date instead of overwriting them, preserving history while the reusable template stays at the top.