What is it about?
Focuses on effective meetings by defining the purpose, deliverables, agenda, and processes used to achieve it. Become familiar with methods for designing effective meetings and increase skills for leading effective meetings.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify characteristics of effective meetings
- Write desired outcomes for more effective meetings
- Design an agenda to help the group achieve objectives
- Explain the difference between a controlling style and a facilitating style and when to use each
- Create useful flipcharts
- Identify appropriate questioning strategy for specific meeting situations
- List strategies for improving listening and summarizing skills
- Demonstrate a 3-step approach for building agreements
- Create an action plan
What is covered in this course?
The Effective Meeting Series starts with participants learning about who they are have how their personality can affect a meeting. It is also important that members are aware of how they fit into the team meeting and what their role is. An effective meeting comes through preparation and a defined outcome before beginning.
- What makes an effective meeting and outcome
- Plan your meeting and how to best prepare Agenda
- The roles of those in the meeting
- Meeting styles informative, directive, brainstorming etc.
- Lead meetings so that they are productive and directed Preparation and early communication
- Team work in meetings
- Visual aids in meetings sometimes meeting are no different to a presentation!
- Being a participant in a meeting
- Make the meetings interesting and engaging
- Get more ideas and better decisions in less time
- Listening effectively and sharing information effectively
- Reduce the need for more meetings
- Ensure meetings actually result in agreement and action
- Lead meetings to start and end on a great note
- ACTION after the meeting
- Note taking minutes
- Simulation during this training, a team meeting simulation demonstrating an action plan is done. Participants are put into groups of 5 or 6, each with a different role to play. At the end of the meeting, they will have a definitive action plan and learned new skills of sharing those Actions and following up.
Duration
1 day