Course Description:
The Effective Meeting Skills training course delves into common mistakes made during meetings and offers strategies to avoid them. Participants will learn how to make meetings more purposeful, develop skills to keep them on track, and understand the crucial roles of the chairperson and minute taker. The course covers gaining cooperation from attendees, managing conflicts, handling disruptive or cynical participants, and making logical decisions with action planning.
Course Outline:
- Explore key principles and best practices for effective meeting management.
- Learn how to initiate meetings with a clear purpose and establish contracts with participants for success.
- Understand how to create realistic agendas that maintain engagement and focus.
- Identify crucial roles that contribute to effective meetings and enhance productivity.
- Discover techniques to encourage open discussions, increasing participation and commitment.
- Manage situations and behaviors that can disrupt meetings and create disharmony.
- Learn how to summarize and close meetings effectively, ensuring actions are assigned and commitments are made.
Key Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this course, participants will:
- Comprehend essential skills and techniques required for effective meeting management.
- Develop a process to clearly define the purpose and goals of meetings.
- Engage diverse team members and maintain their interest and participation.
- Recognize the key roles contributing to successful meetings and ensuring their positive impact on meeting processes and outcomes.
- Identify situations and behaviors that can hinder meetings and apply strategies to address them.
- Learn effective approaches to handling questions, objections, and conflicts during meetings.
Who Should Attend?
This course is suitable for anyone interested in enhancing their own or others’ participation in or management of meetings.