Training Course

Managing Meetings

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Course Duration: 0.5 Days

Course Overview

A well run meeting can solve problems, encourage consensus, generate action and develop team spirit. However, meetings that are managed incorrectly can lead to frustrating results such as lengthy deliberations and/or inconclusive outcomes. This course will help delegates understand how to keep a meeting efficient and beneficial for all involved.

Course Objectives

    • Define the key elements of a meeting and how they contribute to effectiveness. They will be able to manage the mechanics of a meeting, including the meeting process, action planning and ownership, and the handling of conflict situations including disruptive individuals.

Prerequisites

    • No previous knowledge is required.

Course Content

  • The Starting Point is Managing Yourself

    Asking and Answering the question ‘Why the Meeting Matters’ to You, the Attendees, the Department, the Business.

  • Appreciating the Process – stages of a Meeting

    Who should attend
    How long for
    Where will it take place
    Rules
    Using the agenda/setting an agenda
    Objective setting
    Staying alert
    People management.

  • Facilitation skills – including how to do:

    Interventions
    Brainstorming
    Feedback
    Presentation
    Parking Lot

  • Converting the ‘Knowing what to do’ to ‘Doing what you know’- having meetings that people actually want to attend!

Included with this course

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

 

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R.B. Cirrus Environmental Soultions Ltd, Customer Care

Very useful and well tailored to our requirements

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Any other comments or recommendations Very good, useful course.

K.G. South Tyneside Council, Excel Level 3

Following this training what are you going to do differently My whole approach to spreadsheets and obtaining selecting information

W.F. , Excel Level 1

 

 

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