2-DAY COURSE
Effective Meeting Design and Facilitation
More details about this course:
In Class Group Exercises:
In-class exercises help you identify and examine firsthand problems that you may be experiencing. Through group effort, you and your peers will discuss ways your project or company should be handling meetings during the critical design phase and how you can improve the implementation of these meetings. Specifically, you will:
- Learn to align meeting designs with project or business requirements
- Set the parameters of team and stakeholder expectations prior to meetings
- Establish effective team behaviors in different types of meetings
- Identify common meeting execution problems and deal with them in real-time
- Learn to classify team member behaviors and respond to them in the most appropriate fashion
- Make mundane meetings into effective team-building sessions
- Turn any meeting into an efficient problem-solving session
Key Benefits of Attending this Course
- Design the meeting that satisfies your requirements.
- Understand the characteristics of a well-written agenda.
- Ensure everyone comes to your meetings with all necessary information.
- Know when to schedule a meeting, and when not to.
- Learn your strengths and weaknesses as a meeting facilitator, and how to capitalize on the former and counter the latter.
- Learn how to effectively draw out information from reluctant meeting members.
- Handle emergency meetings, keeping every ones "eye on the ball."
- Know when, and when not, to allow meeting members to make team decisions.
- Teach your team members how to properly respond to informational meetings
- Don't say "no" - negotiate it.
- Start and finish meetings on-time.
- Teach team members to actively listen both in and out of meetings.
- Prevent the "Know-it-All" or "Steamroller" from taking over your meeting.
- Stop destructive team behaviors stemming from "Snipers."
- Effectively communicate with project stakeholders at all levels.
- Build team cohesion through negotiating buy-in.
- Coordinate your meetings with your communications management plan.
- Maximize your meeting's productivity with effective follow-up.
- Give and receive effective criticism.
- Ensure meeting action items are accomplished on-time, on-budget, and right THE FIRST TIME!
Who Should Attend This Course:
This course is designed to bring immediate benefit to individuals and teams for whom meetings are an integral part of operations. This course is perfect for:
- Managers
- Supervisors
- Project managers
- Team leaders
- Program managers
- Functional managers
- Business analysts
- Anyone in a team environment wishing to communicate more effectively and improve meeting performance
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