Running Effective Team Meetings

Used effectively, team meetings provide a useful forum of communication between managers and their teams. Careful structuring of the meeting process and content will allow managers to get the most out of team meetings while encouraging positive participation and energised discussion. This course will give some practical guidelines for getting the most out of team meetings. Course Outline: Pre-meeting: Setting a clear and useful purpose for the meeting, Agenda Setting, Assigning roles to the team, Preparation. The Meeting Process: Communication, The communication cycle, Active listening, Communicating negative messages, Encompassing feedback, Adapting your profile to meet objectives. To lead the meeting: generate and develop ideas, resolve disputes, Understanding group and team processes, Maintaining productivity and encouraging positive participation, Dealing with typical meeting disruptions, Facilitating decision making, Focusing on the future, Sticking to the agenda. Post Meeting: Distributing key outcomes, Co-ordinating action points, Clearly defining individual responsibilities, Setting timescales for the completion of actions, Follow-up.