COURSE | 2-DAY SESSION
Effective Meeting Design and Facilitation

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Master proven skills and techniques to maximize the value of any meetings

How to:

• Improve your techniques for planning and scheduling meetings
  
• Learn the four basic types of meetings and how to facilitate each
  
• Increase team performance through team-building meetings
  
• Learn how to efficiently manage a meeting, using less time to accomplish more
  
• Identify your key stakeholders and learn to communicate with them effectively
  
• Learn how to effectively deal with problem team members in meetings
  
• Learn how to train your team to be active listeners
  
• Identify and solve real-world challenges to effective communications
  
• Use self-assessment tools to enhance your communications competency
  
• Develop action plans for improving your interpersonal communications
  
• Bonus when you attend: Receive and use in class the following texts: The Manager's Guide to Effective Meetings by Barbara J. Streibel and Doyle’s How to Make Meetings Work
  
  

Key Benefits of Attending this Course

1. Design the meeting that satisfies your requirements.
   
2. Understand the characteristics of a well-written agenda.
   
3. Ensure everyone comes to your meetings with all necessary information.
   
4. Know when to schedule a meeting, and when not to.
   
5. Learn your strengths and weaknesses as a meeting facilitator, and how to capitalize on the former and counter the latter.
   
6. Learn how to effectively draw out information from reluctant meeting members.
   
7. Handle emergency meetings, keeping every ones "eye on the ball."
   
8. Know when, and when not, to allow meeting members to make team decisions.
   
9. Teach your team members how to properly respond to informational meetings
   
10. Don't say "no" - negotiate it.
    
11. Start and finish meetings on-time.
    
12. Teach team members to actively listen both in and out of meetings.
    
13. Prevent the "Know-it-All" or "Steamroller" from taking over your meeting.
    
14. Stop destructive team behaviors stemming from "Snipers."
    
15. Effectively communicate with project stakeholders at all levels.
    
16. Build team cohesion through negotiating buy-in.
    
17. Coordinate your meetings with your communications management plan.
    
18. Maximize your meeting's productivity with effective follow-up.
    
19. Give and receive effective criticism.
    
20. Ensure meeting action items are accomplished on-time, on-budget, and right THE FIRST TIME!