Managing Meetings
Managing Meetings
 

Training for Effective Meetings

 

Why attend this Meeting Management course?


Many managers spend as much as 50% of their working life in meetings – and consider much of this time to be wasted. Good chairing skills are crucial – yet everyone who attends a meeting has a stake in its success and can influence its outcome. This Meeting Management course shows how careful preparation and effective communication and chairing skills can steer a meeting to a successful conclusion, saving considerable time.
 

Who is it for?


Those who want to be able to chair a meeting effectively or anyone who is tired of attending ineffectual meetings and wants to create productive meetings.
 

Benefits of Managing Meetings

  • Clearly define the purpose of a meeting, and prepare a realistic agenda
  • Brief participants in a way that ensures maximum involvement and commitment to the process
  • Improve your ability to chair meetings effectively
  • Stimulate and control discussion with ease
  • Be able to handle negative, time-wasting and disruptive behaviours effectively
  • Manage telephone meetings in a way that keeps people’s attention
  • Know how to make the most of every meeting

What you will learn

  • Achieving best practice in meetings
  • Planning for a meeting
  • Managing the meeting process
  • Handling difficult people and situations
  • Chairing and managing meetings
  • Teleconference meetings
  • Taking minutes
Course details
Maximum participants: 8
Duration: 1 day
Available as: In-company
In-company course price: Please contact us
   
 
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