Meeting Management: The Art of making meetings work

Management Training Courses in Glasgow | Edinburgh | Scotland

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Training Course Outline

Meetings come in all shapes and sizes, from a convention to a quick huddle in an office hallway. This one-day program will be concerned with small working meetings; with groups that have a job to do requiring the energy, commitment and talents of those who participate.

Prerequisites

No previous experience is required.

Key Benefits
  • Understand the value of meetings as a management tool.
  • 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 You Will Cover

  • The basics for effective meetings
  • The best and the worst of meetings
  • Holding productive meetings
  • Preparing for meetings
  • Agendas
  • Setting the place
  • Leading a meeting
  • Process and content
  • Process tools, including DeBono's thinking hats, rules of work and facilitation skills
  • How to control a meeting
  • A plan for success

Duration

This is a 1 day instructor led course.

Location

UK wide