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Meetings are often identified as the single biggest timewaster in the business world today. Yet many meetings are important, not only for sharing information and problem-solving, but also for developing and maintaining business relationships.
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This course is a hands-on exploration of essential skills for planning, facilitating and participating in meetings that matter. Learn to make your meetings more effective, efficient, and appropriately collaborative.
Participants will learn to
- Preplan meetings for maximum efficiency and effectiveness in terms of content, process and participants
- Construct a dynamic meeting agenda
- Conduct a collaborative meeting through its three phases
- Facilitate and apply decision-making techniques appropriate to the situation
- Set up effective follow-through mechanisms
- Keep meetings on track
- Get meaningful stakeholder involvement
Course Content
- Preplanning: stakeholder analysis, desired outcomes, agenda, groundrules, logistics, pitfall analysis
- Facilitation skills: maximizing effective participation
- Balancing focus on people, process and product
- Tools for making decisions
- Action planning to assure implementation
- Making win/win work in the real world.
Format
2 days. Offsite preferred.