Running Efficient and Productive Meetings

Avoid the meeting ‘black hole’ by learning how to plan, run and review meetings.

It is estimated that meetings can take up between 30% and 60% of our working days and yet how many of us can claim that they are consistently useful experiences? Not many, we suspect.

Meetings are a useful and necessary part of business life, but skill is required if they are to be effectively and efficiently executed.  This course provides participants with the tools knowledge and capabilities to plan, run and follow up on meetings

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Prepare for meetings so that the right people are ready to discuss the right issue
• Design more interactive meetings which involve attendees in developing content or making decisions
• Run the meeting so that it is more likely to finish on time with clear progress being made
• Understand how to close a meeting well in order to get real action
• Deal with disruptive participants

If you dream of a world where meetings have a clear purpose, start and finish on time and deliver valuable outputs then this course is for you.

 Format options

• ½ day
• 3-12 participants

Target audience

• All staff

Areas covered

• Meeting management
• Managing disruptive behaviours
• Group oriented techniques