Effective Meeting Management

Course details

Who Should Attend:

• Managers & Supervisors
• Team Leaders & Team Members
• Administrators who run meetings

Course Objectives

• Understand the value of meetings as a management tool
• Understand what a productive meeting is and how to organise and run one
• Recognise the critical planning step that makes meeting time more effective
• Identify process tools that can help create an open and safe forum for discussion
• Develop and practice techniques for handling counterproductive behaviour.

What will you gain?

By the end of this course, you will be able to:  

• Transform meetings into shorter and more productive gatherings
• Put together guidelines for the preparation and structure of the meeting
• Establish a meaningful purpose of the meeting and draw up a workable agenda
• Identify and avoid meeting planning disasters
• Anticipate, manage and control typical challenges and concerns
• Balance discussions, and tactfully handle any difficult participants
• Improve time and money spent on arranging and managing meetings.

Course Content

• Preparing for a meeting: The Basics for Effective Meetings
• The Best and the Worst of Meetings
• Setting the Stage for Success
• Meetings Process and Content
• Your role as a meeting attendee and how to convert boring lengthy meetings into productive ones
• How to Control a Meeting.