Introduction
The cynic's view of meetings is that they are a great way to avoid work! All too often meetings are cited as being the biggest causes of time wasting and frustration in business. This is not how it should be and is certainly not how it can be. Take a group of capable and intelligent people, put them together with the skills for successful meetings and you can get a tremendous contribution to whatever you are doing.
This programme is designed to instill the skills and approach needed to make meetings a focused and constructive part of the management process.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this programme, participants will be able to:
Plan meetings, set agenda effectively, plan and control time to ensure overage of agenda items
Ensure active participation of members & control members' participation
Keep the meeting on track, set and control the process
Summarise, set and agree action points
Make their meetings successful
Programme Content
The programme covers all the necessary ingredients for effective meetings and adds some innovative tools and techniques, particularly in the area of time control, meeting conduct and meeting evaluation
