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
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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Overall course rating
out of 5
4.0
Participants specifically applying what they learnt
95
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