Facilitation Techniques for Chairing or Running Effective Meetings
What is the Running Effective Meetings Course about?
The Facilitating and Running Effective Meetings course is about learning how to manage time and keep focus, listen effectively, grasp issues quickly, absorb and bring structure to new information and respond to needs sensitively. Whether leading meetings or facilitating discussions, you need to have the techniques to plan and be in charge of them so that they run effectively and efficiently.
Who is this course for?
This skills course for running or chairing meetings is for team leaders, supervisors, managers and leaders responsible for chairing or managing the running of workplace or organisational meetings. Not just running a meeting beut getting the most out of the time invested by all involved in the meeting.
How will the organisation benefit?
When meetings are run effectively many benefits flow including:
Time being used efficiently
Participants being prepared, motivated and fully engaged
Quality decisions and actions being agreed and committed too
Discussions adding real value to overall objectives
Strengthening of team bonds and relationships
What will you learn on the course? – a typical course content
You will be able to:
Identify the purpose of meetings and clarify roles
Explore different types of meetings
Create structures to suite different purposes of meetings
Understand the planning process to ensure efficiency and effectiveness
Open meetings effectively AND sustain energy, pace and clarity of purpose
Facilitate discussion and encourage co-operation, collaboration and balanced contribution
Keep focus and manage time
Overcome objections and deal with obstacles
Enhance your verbal and non-verbal communication skills
Summarise topics of discussion and promote ownership of future actions
Ensure follow-up and feedback
How is this Running Effective Meetings Course delivered?
Classroom / Workshop
One to One Coaching
