Who is it for?

This Chairing Productive Meetings course is for anyone with responsibility for chairing or managing meetings, or who facilitates discussions within the business.

Description

If you chair or facilitate at meetings - then this course is for you!

It gives you a full understanding of the meeting process and how to control and energise a discussion. You will learn how to structure the meeting to best effect; how to manage difficult attendees; and how to agree objectives and outcomes so that your meetings achieve real results in a timely fashion.

 

Course content

• Why do we have meetings?

• Setting objectives for the meeting and who should attend

• Preparation of useful, clear, agendas and accompanying documentation

• Controlling the meeting: timings, participation, staying on track

• Understanding the meetings cycle – beginning to end

• Stimulating useful discussion

• Controlling difficult participants & understanding difficult behaviours

• Working with the minute-taker

• Questioning & listening techniques

• Summarising & implementing action plans 

Course duration

1 day, normally between 9:30 and 4:30

Cost

£365 (+VAT) per person on scheduled course. £1125 (+VAT) for training at your premises for a group of staff.