Chairing Meetings Training

Chairing Effective Meetings

Course Synopsis
Chairing a meeting effectively can bring its challenges with meeting attendees arriving late, unprepared and even disruptive due to their lack of structured contribution.
This UK in-house training course focusses on how to conduct effective meetings. The course focuses on how to improve the planning of meetings and aims to increase your skill in running and chairing successful meetings. You can then be confident that all future meetings you chair will be more productive in terms of the outputs gained and the time spent.

Course Objectives
To provide participants with the crucial skills and knowledge to organise and conduct effective face-to-face meetings.

Programme Topics

• Principles of successful meetings
• Using agendas and managing group energy
• Preparing for an effective meeting
• Establishing ground rules
• Role of the chairperson in planning and running meetings
• Facilitating discussion as chair of the meeting
• Managing participation during an effective meeting

Methods

• Trainer presentation and facilitation
• Group discussion
• Small group exercises
• Practice sessions
• Workbook