Training course

Chairing Effective Meetings

Meetings are important for management and communication. When it comes to the serious stuff, face-to-face meetings are effective because they outdo the written words of emails and memos, and out-perform the effectiveness of telephone conferencing.

Meetings are costly of both time and money. A poorly structured and managed meeting will waste the time of everyone, will cost the time of everyone, and make people dread attending in the future.

This course aims to showcase the skills and knowledge needed to chair a meeting successfully

  • 3 Hours
  • Online or in person
  • Private courses available
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Prerequisites

  • There are no pre-requisites for this course.

Who it's for

  • This course is appropriate for anyone with responsibility for chairing a meeting. It will equip the first-time chairman with the knowledge and skills awareness needed to become effective in the role. It will help those with limited experience become more confident and proficient. It will inform the more experienced practitioner with a view to enhancing their effectiveness, and broadening their skill-set.

Included

  • Comprehensive course materials and exercises
  • Lunch and refreshments when training is delivered at our training venues

Course content Back to top

  1. Key Topics
    Why meetings fail
    Meeting types and structures
    The importance of time and place
    The skills of a good chairman
    Understanding group behaviour
    The planning process
    Roles and responsibilities
    How to make intelligent interventions.

Public dates and prices Back to top

Prices are per delegate and exclude VAT.

  • Friday 11 December 2026

    Virtual, live online 9:30–16:30

    £345+ VAT

Can't make these dates? Ask about a private course on a date that suits you.

Training a team?

Run this course privately, on your dates

  • Bespoke Bespoke private training can be based on an existing course or a number of lessons taken from several courses, we can also write bespoke courses for you based on your in-house systems or development program.
  • Private Flexible course content, flexible training date(s), flexible location(s), variable course length, private to your organisation - Courses can be held at one of our training venues or at another location convenient to you. Training can be set over a number of days or weeks to allow for practice time between training sessions.
  • Virtual These courses can be attended from anywhere.

What delegates say Back to top

“I enjoyed the course and it was very insightful.”
M.B., Rowen Homes, Excel Essentials

Following this training what are you going to do differently

“I am now able to create spreadsheets using excel to compile, present and share data.”
B., London Borough Of Merton, Excel Level 1

Following this training what are you going to do differently

“Will be leading the effort to replace a large number of reports currently done in Excel with Power BI variants to better present the data, and make reproduction far faster.”
T.W., Network Rail, Microsoft Power BI Desktop
“Very good useful course. Trainer was brilliant and I wasn’t scared to ask her to show me how to do different parts again.”
A.M., James Jones, Excel Level 2
“Four steps to effective instruction is very useful”
B.J., Greencore Group, Train the Trainer

Are there any aspects of the course which you feel require improvement

“I thought the structure of the course was perfect. I was really impressed by the prepopulated worksheet.”
B.T., Egger, Excel Level 2

What were the most useful aspects of the course

“The one to one undivided attention to areas I needed to improve.”
M.B., Mgl Group, Telephone Skills

Which part of the course did you find particularly valuable

“Section around categorising tasks by importance and urgency”
A.H., Credit Services Association, Time Management Janet Hope Kath Lambton

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Please contact us to discuss your Chairing Effective Meetings course, we have many solutions available to ensure you receive the best training possible.

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