How to Make Meeting Work
For staff with responsibility for chairing or contributing to meetings work.
Course Aim: To provide participants with a framework to increase their effectiveness in convening, conducting, and concluding meetings. To enable participants to get the best out of the people at the meeting.
Objectives: By the end of the course participants will improve their ability to:
Plan a highly effective meeting
Inform participants to enable full participation
Prepare the agenda in order to achieve effective outcomes
Structure and control the meeting
Summarise all decisions and clarify actions
Deal with the people issues in meetings
Unite the meeting participants by allowing feelings and sticking to facts
Focus the participants and check for understanding
Build on ideas and protect weaker contributors
Length: Two days
Size: Up to twelve people
Programme
Day 1
09:30
Introduction to the course
10:30
BREAK
10:45
Planning a highly effective meeting
11:45
Informing participants to enable full participation
12:45
LUNCH
13:45
Preparing the agenda in order to achieve effective outcomes
15:00
BREAK
15:15
Structuring and controlling the meeting
15:45
Summarising all decisions and clarifying actions
16:30
FINISH
Day 2
09:30
Dealing with the people issues in meetings
10:30
BREAK
10:45
Uniting the participants by allowing feelings and sticking to facts
12:45
LUNCH
13:45
Focusing the participants and checking for understanding
15:00
BREAK
15:15
Building on ideas and protecting weaker contributors
16:30
FINISH
Customer Feedback
“A very relevant and helpful course, excellent.”
Cheryl Reynolds Contracts Officer, Contracts Unit, Greenwich SSD
