Duration: Half day

Meetings! Meetings! Meetings! They have become part of our daily lives. It is said that meetings are as inevitable in the business world as “death and taxes” and just about as popular. So, don’t you wish you were more effective in meetings? Why do some people have the knack of carrying committee’s with them, while others mumble, bumble, stumble and then fumble it? 

Meetings have to happen. We dread having them because most of them waste time, get out of control or end up in gripe sessions.  This half-day workshop will teach you how to run a meeting in the shortest possible time, while achieving the results that you intended.

During recent years, extensive new research has been done into how people behave in meetings, research you may not have had the time to study. (You’ve probably been to busy going to meetings!) 

Now, Making Meetings Work, uncovers the tricks and techniques, the ploys and stratagems, with which you can manage meetings so that you get the desired result. It covers every significant aspect of meeting behaviour. 

After this workshop, you will be able to run meetings effectively, on time and with a minimum of disruption to the normal workday.

You will learn

• The Role of the Chairman & Participant

Setting the Ground Rules

Setting the Objective of the Meeting                                               

• Planning of Meetings

Constructing an Agenda

Timing of an Agenda

Selecting Participants for Productive Participation

Maximising the Time Allotted

• Stimulating Participation

Setting up the Meeting Room

Introducing Topics

• Maintaining Control

• Handling Difficult Situations

Defusing Destructive Political Alliances

Dealing with “Meeting Hijackers”

Keeping to the Subject Matter