Making Meetings Work

Get a return on such an investment

All the research still points to meetings running with at least a 50% inefficiency rate. ‘Too long’, ‘Too boring’, ‘A distraction from getting the real work done’ are common views of meetings these days.

This course will help everyone get more from their meetings, whether as chair or participant. Methods include tutor input, action learning and simulated meetings to real agendas. Delegates will discover many techniques and skills to transform meetings and their personal contributions. As a result meetings will become what they should always have been – an invaluable tool for communicating, problem solving, decision making and involving.

Our making meetings work course outline includes:

• ‘The different objectives of meetings’
• ‘What goes wrong at meetings’
• Establishing factors likely to cause effective/ineffective meetings
• Mechanics and behaviour
• Group roles
• Content v Process
• 3 Circles Model
• Effective contributions as a group member
• Key skills and techniques
• Roles, Attributes, Skills and Techniques for successful chairing of meetings
• Facilitation skills
• Dealing with difficult situations
• Deciding on agenda for practical session
• Run major meeting simulation
• Feedback and action planning
• Review and Close

Did you like this?