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Everyone knows what goes wrong with meetings. They don’t start on time and they don’t finish as planned. The wrong people attend and the purpose is often unclear. A few people dominate the air space while others with useful input fight to be heard. More time is spent on analyzing and blaming, than on action planning. There is little commitment to what is decided…and the next meeting often covers the ground of the previous.
Meetings don’t run themselves. This workshop is for people who want to make the best use of others’ time in their meetings. When meetings start to be run efficiently and usefully you will see participation in them and their productivity improve.
Purpose of workshop
- To provide guidelines, tools and templates for planning and managing the content of meetings efficiently and effectively
- To provide an opportunity for development of the communication skills required to chair and control meetings effectively
- Agenda for workshop
1.A process for planning the purpose of a meeting: participants, date, time, venue, agenda and minutes are overviewed in the workshop and supported by written guidelines, templates and lists.
2.80% of workshop time is spent on the practical interactive skills required to create and control effective communication in meetings. These are based on the Straight Talk principles. The notion of balancing behaviours in a meeting so it achieves its purpose is first introduced.
3.The meetings behaviours used by participants are analysed in a practical exercise.
4.The role of the chairperson in managing the balance of behaviour in a meeting is explained using practical exercises.
5.Principles for handling difficult people:
- Motor mouth
- Whiner
- Victim
- Super reactor
- Nit picker
6.Confronting bad behaviour in a meeting.
7.Getting commitment to ideas or action.
Logistics
The workshop is run in-house over a four hour period for small groups of people who wish to improve the way they run meetings.
After training an option is available to have one of the trainers sit in on a real meeting and provide feedback on its process.
To enquire about in house training please contact us
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