Effective Meeting Management
Are your meetings focused and effective or long winded talking shops? Do your meetings end with no decisions made and no actions plans? Are your meetings a waste of time and money? StellaNova Consulting tackles these issues head on, giving delegates practical tools & techniques to increase their effectiveness when chairing or participating in meetings.
Course contents and objectives
The aims and contents of this course can include:
- Defining meetings
- Why meetings fail
- Characteristics of effective meetings
- Preparing and planning for meetings
- Planning and preparing an agenda
- Stages in group development and meeting contracts
- Starting and closing meetings
- The role of the chairperson
- The role of participants
- The importance of minutes
- Dealing with meeting monsters and situational problems
- Techniques for improving meeting effectiveness
- Thinking ‘win-win’
- Personal action planning