Effective Meetings

Meeting management tends to be a set of skills often overlooked by leaders and managers. As meetings are crucial to getting measurable results, it has become more and more important that meetings are well organised, effectively led and promptly followed up. Meetings are very expensive activities when one considers the cost of labour for the meeting and how much can or cannot get done in them. The purpose of the program is to develop the meeting management skills of the participants in order to turn meeting time into sustained results.

OBJECTIVES

The Effective Meetings training will enable participants to:

• Understand and apply the principles of effective meeting management
• Plan and conduct effective meetings
• Work proactively and self-responsibly on meetings
• Commit their associates to the clear guidelines they communicate
• Give and receive feedback, as well as draw conclusions after a meeting
• Share their needs, tasks and problems in team meetings in a positive and productive fashion
• Understand and use peers’ roles and contributions in a meeting

TOPICS

The following topics are some of the key learning points of the Effective Meetings training:

• Planning, opening and closing a meeting
• Developing meeting agendas in co-operation with the meeting participants
• Time management of a meeting
• Ensure participation of relevant people
• Subjects and meeting discussions
• Minutes aims grid for a meeting
• Facilitation guideline throughout a successful meeting
• Enable action planning
• Follow up of a successful meeting

The methodology of the training is based on interactive tasks, role plays, case studies, meeting simulations and other exercises. The participants will be challenged to draw their own conclusions and apply their learning in practical situations.

TARGET GROUP

Managers and employees who wish to improve their meeting skills, either as participants or as facilitators of successful and effective meetings.

TIME FRAME

1 day

For more details regarding Effective Meetings Program please contact us and we will provide you an answer based on your needs as soon as possible.

This training is also available in the following languages:

• In German
• In Hungarian
• In Romanian
• In Croatian
• In Slovenian