Chairing Effective Meetings

Course Overview

Meetings are important for management and communication. When it comes to the serious stuff, face-to-face meetings are effective because they outdo the written words of emails and memos, and out-perform the effectiveness of telephone conferencing.

Meetings are costly of both time and money. A poorly structured and managed meeting will waste the time of everyone, will cost the time of everyone, and make people dread attending in the future.

This course aims to showcase the skills and knowledge needed to chair a meeting successfully

Prerequisites

• • There are no pre-requisites for this course.

Target Audience for this Course

• • This course is appropriate for anyone with responsibility for chairing a meeting. It will equip the first-time chairman with the knowledge and skills awareness needed to become effective in the role. It will help those with limited experience become more confident and proficient. It will inform the more experienced practitioner with a view to enhancing their effectiveness, and broadening their skill-set.

Course Content

• Key Topics

  Why meetings fail
  Meeting types and structures
  The importance of time and place
  The skills of a good chairman
  Understanding group behaviour
  The planning process
  Roles and responsibilities
  How to make intelligent interventions.

Included with this course

• • Comprehensive course materials and exercises
  • Lunch and refreshments when training is delivered at our training venues