Professional Self-Development
Effective Meeting Management
Making Meetings Work: How to Plan, Conduct and Manage Group Discussions

Duration: 2 Days
Who Should Attend:
- Managers & Supervisors
- Team Leaders & Team Members
- Administrators who run meetings
Course Objectives
- Understand the value of meetings as a management tool
- Understand what a productive meeting is and how to organise and run one
- Recognise the critical planning step that makes meeting time more effective
- Identify process tools that can help create an open and safe forum for discussion
- Develop and practice techniques for handling counterproductive behaviour.
What will you gain?
By the end of this course, you will be able to:- Transform meetings into shorter and more productive gatherings
- Put together guidelines for the preparation and structure of the meeting
- Establish a meaningful purpose of the meeting and draw up a workable agenda
- Identify and avoid meeting planning disasters
- Anticipate, manage and control typical challenges and concerns
- Balance discussions, and tactfully handle any difficult participants
- Improve time and money spent on arranging and managing meetings.
Course Content
- Preparing for a meeting: The Basics for Effective Meetings
- The Best and the Worst of Meetings
- Setting the Stage for Success
- Meetings Process and Content
- Your role as a meeting attendee and how to convert boring lengthy meetings into productive ones
- How to Control a Meeting.
Testimonials
- “Everything was perfect. Completely different experience because of the instructor’s style of delivery. It will really help in planning and conducting any future meetings.”
- “Great course! I really enjoyed the sharing of ideas, the interaction and the communication with the class. Now I will be able to prepare agenda and write minutes of a meeting in a proper way.”
- “The instructor’s knowledge, teaching style, presentation, etc. was simply great; there was immense clarity in her communication. It’s going to improve my daily management of meetings, and quarterly team building meetings.”
- “The program was very informative, and the instructor was very friendly. This course will really help me with arranging and managing meetings as my job revolves around meetings.”
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