Leading Effective and Productive Meetings

Whether you manage a project, lead a team, or conduct meetings as part of your job, this course will help you create engaging, efficient and productive meetings that accomplish your goals and objectives.

Course Description

Meetings are a great way to build teams, gather input, solve problems and reach decisions. When they go well, we have an increased sense of collaboration, satisfaction and accomplishment. Poorly run meetings, however, can be an excruciating waste of time and money and can even intensify divisions between us. Given the frustration most people feel when their time is wasted, gaining a reputation for running efficient and successful meetings is good for you and your career. In this course participants will:

  • Gain practical tips for planning, conducting, following-up on and improving future meetings
  • Examine group dynamics and practice group process techniques
  • Review key considerations and checklists for meeting planning
  • Learn the dynamics of group decision making and strategies to arrive at effective solutions everyone can own and implement
  • Learn how to anticipate and handle meeting challenges effectively
  • Spot and avoid time wasters
  • Experience tools and techniques for engaging full participation and addressing difficult behaviors in meetingsExplore the hidden reasons meetings falter and the hallmarks of successful meetings.

Instructor

Sue Woods

Date | Time | Location

TBD

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