Description

Meetings are the core of creating effective team roles and delegation. They are also over used and often result in ineffective use of time. This workshop is designed to give participants the tools they need to initiate and manage effective, concrete meetings. You will learn how to plan and lead with techniques that will give you the confidence to run a meeting that will engage the attendees and leave a positive and lasting impression. Through this workshop participants will learn the needed skills in planning and implementing a successful meeting.
The Meeting Management workshop will explore how to reduce waste and make meetings more efficient. Use this course to begin the process of developing your skills in leading meetings so that other attendees will share same desire to improve their meeting management skills.

Designed for

• Project managers, leads and senior executives who attend meetings on a regular basis.
• Those managing many projects across many teams.
• Project managers, leads and senior executives who attend meetings on a regular basis.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this workshop, you should be able to:
– Learn to Plan and Prepare for meetings ahead of time..
– Identify the right Participants and Stakeholders.
– Learn about choosing the right time and place to hold meetings.
– Learn how to create the right agenda.
– Establish the meeting space and expectations.
– Establish Meeting Roles and Responsibilities.
– Learn about being in control of your meeting and chairing the Meeting.
– Learn how to how to deal with disruptions and derailleurs.
– Deal professionally with personality conflicts.
– Learn how to take popper minutes.
– Learn to make the most of your meeting using games, activities and prizes, when needed..

Getting Started

Just to make sure the experience is as smooth as possible we’d like to suggest a couple of things you may or will need to get on with the course:
– While we are happy for anyone to enrol in the course, we suggest that you should be at least managing/leading a team (big or small) or preparing for a role that requires your leadership skills
– Internet connection is a big must
– Readiness to learn, remember this is about you and so you need to be ready to take time to yourself and motivate yourself
– Maybe something to write some notes down or ideas, but don’t worry the course documents can be downloaded at the end of the course for you to review and use at any time

Have fun!