Running great meetings

Overview

This workshop will help participants run meetings as effectively as possible. It is targeted at those who want practical ideas to make meetings more productive, skills to manage difficult meetings and ideas for increasing participation.

Course Content

This workshop teaches participants how to structure for the meeting cycle. It gives a step-by-step guide to running productive meetings, ways of managing difficult behaviour in meetings, strategies to deliver outcomes, time-saving tools, including an agenda structure, and ideas for adding variety to a meeting.

Course Outcomes

By the end of this course attendees should be able to:

• plan for an effective meeting and write an effective agenda
• get participants to meetings on time
• keep meetings to a minimum
• keep discussions on track
• manage difficult and unproductive behaviour in meetings
• increase participant involvement
• evaluate a meeting or committee’s effectiveness
• manage virtual meetings.

Benefits to your organisation

• fewer meetings
• meetings that are well planned
• meetings that achieve outcomes

Benefits to you

• knowledge of the cost of meetings and ideas for running more productive meetings
• tools to make organising and running meetings easier, and modern methods for minute taking
• choices about how best to structure and run a meeting, and practical strategies to keep control of meetings