Leading Effective Meetings

Introduction

Instructional workshops offer excellent content for staff development, productivity and team interventions, and for supervisor, management and employee skills improvement. Workshops can be presented as either half or full day versions at client sites or locations.  Half-day workshops offer content and some application, while full-day workshops include personal and team application, role plays and application. (All workshops are presented as 4 hour workshops complete with breaks.)

Workshop Description

Are you tired of wasting your precious time in the wrong meetings,  with the wrong people, for the wrong reasons? Do you waste time by not having adequate planning, timed agendas, minutes, action items and role clarity? Do you dread the thought of the days where you have more meetings booked than time to do your work? Are you sick of the never-ending inefficiencies? This workshop will help your staff finally get it together! Leading Effective Meetings will help you plan, organize and conduct meetings to produce more effective results. Learn practical tips & techniques to make you more effective and even avoid meetings when possible. You’ll also receive meeting planning templates you can personalize and implement immediately!

Learning Objectives

1. Determine when meetings are necessary and when they are avoidable
2. Identify the three-step method of how to effectively plan and conduct meetings
3. Effectively plan, prepare and communicate meeting agendas
4. Understand and implement the key planning techniques that make meetings successful
5. Clarify participant and leadership roles that support meeting success
6. Understand group techniques and tools that support communication and collaboration
7. Troubleshoot typical meeting de-railing behaviors and how to handle them
8. Identify the importance of meeting minutes, action items and follow up strategies

Program Length: This program is a 3.5-hour interactive & applied workshop