Effective Meeting Management

Given the sheer number of operational meetings each person engages in, we cannot afford the current level of meeting ineffectiveness. We spend more and more of our time in meetings and yet people often voice that meetings are a complete waste of time. We can change this. The fundamentals of an effective meetings are that it is well organised, runs to time, covers the issues, creates quality decisions, reaches consensus and leads to positive, motivated action by the participants of the meeting. With the right set of skills, processes and strategies this is possible, time and time again. This powerful one-day course will have you running meetings that people look forward to because they achieve.

Content

• Understanding the attributes of effective meetings
• Planning excellence - how to get off on the right foot
• The importance of an agenda and how to construct it
• Ensuring people arrived prepared
• Facilitation versus chairing - reaching better conclusions
• Qualities, skills and attributes of the effective facilitator
• Blueprint for effective, productive facilitation
• Opening meetings - use of icebreakers and introductions
• Establishing and enforcing ground rules
• Structure and timing within meetings
• Ensuring everybody contributes, even the quiet ones
• Brainstorming methodology
• Evaluating proposals & consensus building techniques
• Dealing with difficult people and re-establishing control
• Appropriate, action-orientated minutes
• Closing on a high, contracting and ensuring action

Course type and teaching methods

This is a highly interactive balance of latest theory and its practical application designed to equip both the expert and novice with all they need to ensure meetings are productive, action-orientated, engaging and effective!