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CHAIRING MEETINGS TRAINING

Delivered as live online or in-person workshop training.
Learn how to run shorter, more productive meetings.
Become an effective meeting chairperson.

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Course Outline

Learn how to organise and run fun, productive meetings that people will look forward to on this one-day chairing meetings effectively training course.

By the end of this course you will understand:

  • Preparation:
    How to make sure that everyone attending is clear on their role and the aims of the meeting.
  • During The Meeting:
    How to ensure that each agenda item is introduced and dealt with effectively.
    How to structure discussions to encourage participation, build consensus and reach clear decisions. How to deal with time wasters and disruptive participants in difficult meetings.
  • Follow Up:
    How to ensure that appropriate, useful minutes are produced and distributed.

Audience

This course is aimed at anyone who chairs or will be chairing meetings. It is especially useful if you will be chairing meetings where it is important to get full participation and contribution from everyone present.

This course does not require any prior experience. If you already have experience of chairing meetings it is always helpful if you can bring with you examples of issues and difficult meetings that you’ve had to date. These can be committee meetings of any type.

Course Details
  • The purpose of meetings
  • Planning meetings
  • Creating an effective objective
  • Scheduling a meeting
  • Documenting meetings
  • Participating in meetings
  • Managing the flow of a meeting
  • Motivating a productive discussion
  • Keeping a conversation focused
  • Closing meetings
  • Evaluating a meeting’s effectiveness
  • Taking agreed-upon action
  • Meeting leaders
  • Decisions and ideas
  • Steps for making decisions
  • Generating an option
  • Identifying the best option
  • Implementing an option
  • Exploring “Groupthink”
  • Communicating clearly
  • Communicating assertively
  • Enhancing relationships with participants
  • Dealing with challenging participants
  • Non-verbal communication & assertiveness
  • Improving listening skills
  • Barriers to listening effectively
  • Asking effective questions
  • Types of questions
Locations
London Training Centre
Fleet House, 8 - 12 New Bridge St
London, EC4N 7BE
Tel: 0203 143 8100

Directions

Guildford Training Centre
Surrey Technology Centre, 40 Occam Road
Guildford, GU2 7YG
Tel: 01483 380 390

Directions

Private Courses

We’ll happily create a custom course for you if that is what you would prefer.

Simply let us know exactly what you would like to focus on during your day during the pre-course consultation and we’ll create one just for you.

We customise it just for you:

  • 1-2-1 or in-house with your colleagues?
  • At your offices or in one of our centres?
  • Focusing only on certain key topics?

The Day

Our training runs from 9.30am to approximately 4.30am.

We ask that you try to arrive for 9.15am so that we can take your lunch order and get you comfortably settled in with a cup of tea or coffee ready to start at 9.30am.

All of our training rooms are air-conditioned and have plenty of outside light.

You do not need to bring anything with you.

We provide everything that you will need for a really productive day’s training:

  •  A delicious freshly prepared lunch.
  • Plenty of tea, coffee and biscuits
  • A full-colour book for you to make notes in and take home
  • Pads and pens

Please come wearing whatever you are most comfortable wearing. We do not have a dress code.

FAQs

We will send you a booking confirmation as soon as we process your email.

This will include full of your course booking and also a full tax invoice.

It should hopefully give you all the information that you need but if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to get in touch, we’re here to help.

We accept credit and debit cards and also direct bank transfers.

No there is no dress code for our courses.

Please come wearing whatever you are most comfortable in.

If you have any special needs or requirements please let us know when you book your course so that we can confirm that we’ll be able to accommodate your needs before you book the course. Please also let the trainer know at the start of your training day.

You can change your course dates up to 14 days before the course start date subject to an administrator fee of £95 + VAT. Changes cannot be made to the booking within 14 days of the course start date.

Please see our full terms and conditions for more details.

No. We provide everything that you need for the training day.

The only additional costs for you will be travel to and from the training venue and accommodation overnight if that is required.

This course provides a guide to effectively chairing meetings of all kinds – board meetings, committee meetings etc – as the issues and tips for chairing meetings are applicable across all types of meetings.

For example, setting rules for meetings and using assertiveness to guide participants to behave well applies across all types of meetings. Our course exercises and practical tips for chairing meetings apply universally to meetings.