Making Meetings Work

Hugely popular and practical programme employing a half day workshop for those who want to improve team communication, hold more productive meetings, generate new ideas and solve problems faster.

FORMAT

Half day accelerated workshop followed by post course e-prompts and buddy coaching to help integrate learning into day-to-day behaviours. Practical and interactive. Includes group work and work in pairs. Max recommended group size 15.

THEMES

Framing meetings
The three golden rules of productive meetings – purposeful, prepared, controlled
Managing your impact in meetings
Encouraging participation from team members
Delivering difficult messages and maintaining rapport
Creative techniques to generate new ideas
Solve problems quickly
Well-formed actions

Overall course rating out of 5

4.0

Participants specifically applying what they learnt

95

WHAT PARTICIPANTS CAN DO AS A RESULT

Determine what works well in meetings and what they would like to change
Frame meetings to manage expectations and outcomes
Use the three golden rules to set ground rules to keep meetings on track, avoid time wasting and irrelevant discussions
Determine what a confident facilitator/chair looks and sounds like
Consider the impact they want to make and tailor their approach accordingly
Call on top tips and options to handle questions they don’t know the answer to
Deliver difficult messages and gain co-operation
Apply six different styles of thinking to encourage participation and save time in meetings
Create new ideas for solving problems by generating analogies and wild thoughts
Ensure that actions are carried out.

FOR A COURSE DELIVERED AT YOUR ORGANISATION

Number of trainer(s): 1 trainer
Investment per group: £1,950.00

FEEDBACK

“Good simple stuff that I can use straight away” – participant industry – Construction

“If enough of the others here do this course we should be able to change the not-so-productive meeting culture that we have” – participant industry – Banking

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Fresh and innovative ... Workshops are interactive, fun and practical and put the onus on the individual ... professional but down-to-earth Rachel Gilmore, Training & Development, Channel 4 More client feedback