Making Meetings Work

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

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.

FOLLOW UP PROGRAMME

We make sure that learning continues beyond the classroom

• E-prompts: behavioural reminders and coaching style questions to maximise learning
• Action cards: self-addressed cards with action reminders
• Online questionnaire: measure the impact of the programme

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

GUARANTEE

Our results and service quality are exemplary. We know because we listen to our clients. We offer a rock solid money back guarantee to prove it. We guarantee that:

• Workshop participant feedback will at least be consistently good about the facilitator and the workshop
• You will look back on your investment and be completely satisfied that we were the right choice of provider for you and your organisation