Running Effective Meetings

How much money does a wasted meeting cost you, your department or your organisation? We spend a great deal of time in meetings, your team and colleagues will really appreciate your meetings if they are focused, well managed, stay on track, finish on time and produce results. In fact you will probably find attendance and participation improves, as will the quality of the output.

This course helps you to start using meetings more effectively and productively, through the use of structure and skill.

Objectives

• Use a structured approach to enable real results to be achieved from every meeting
• How to plan to avoid an ineffective meeting
• How to plan the meeting – establish the purposes of the meetings, allocating meeting roles, learn how to set clear agendas
• Use techniques for managing dominant and reluctant attendees
• Learn how to energise your meetings
• Identify the differences between and practice the skills of a chair and a facilitator
• Questioning and listening techniques and encouraging and facilitating discussion
• Controlling the agenda, timings and the discussion
• Summarising and implementing action plans

Target Audience

Anyone who would like to improve the way they run meetings or is about to take on the responsibility of doing so.

  

Duration

1 day