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

Design Effective Meetings for Every Situation.

Our failure to properly design and facilitate effective meetings leads to one of the business world's most common frustrations - the time-wasting meeting. If given the choice, most people would rather come in early, stay late, or even work through lunch rather than attend one more inefficiently run meeting. Late starts, even later finishes, private agendas, loss of control by the meeting facilitator: these common problems result in major management frustrations, lost productivity, missed deadlines, and ineffective and missed communications. Effective Meeting Design and Facilitation attacks the problem of meeting failures by addressing the root causes: poor planning and faulty execution.

Ineffective meetings are costly…preventing them isn't!

The lost value to a project of a ten-person poorly-run one-hour meeting can be in the thousands of dollars. And this figure does not even start to include the detrimental effects of poorly understood or missed communications. By investing in just a few key skills and using them consistently, you can save significant time and money on your projects, and ultimately deliver higher-quality communications to your team members and key stakeholders.

Discover the real-world techniques that will help you immediately.

This two-day course will give you hands-on experience with the latest proven techniques for designing and facilitating effective, focused meetings. Lively lectures combined with insightful demonstrations and realistic practice exercises will provide you with the competence and confidence to improve your meeting management skills. You'll gain a thorough understanding of meeting types, the challenges faced in meeting facilitation, and practical approaches for handling meeting (and team) pathologies. Make your project meetings into opportunities to build team cohesion, create buy-in from team members and key stakeholders, and most importantly get things done. Regardless of your organization's environment, you can't afford to miss this course!

In Class Group Exercises:

In-class exercises help you identify and examine firsthand problems that you may be experiencing. Through group effort, you and your peers will discuss ways your project or company should be handling meetings during the critical design phase and how you can improve the implementation of these meetings. Specifically, you will:

• Learn to align meeting designs with project or business requirements
  
• Set the parameters of team and stakeholder expectations prior to meetings
  
• Establish effective team behaviors in different types of meetings
  
• Identify common meeting execution problems and deal with them in real-time
  
• Learn to classify team member behaviors and respond to them in the most appropriate fashion
  
• Make mundane meetings into effective team-building sessions
  
• Turn any meeting into an efficient problem-solving session