CHAIRING MEETINGS TRAINING

This introductory session gives you a firm foundation and framework to build upon.

• 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

This session starts looking at the practicalities of getting decisions made.

• Meeting leaders
• Decision making and ideas
• Steps for making decisions
• Generating an option
• Identifying the best option
• Implementing an option
• Exploring “Groupthink”

As the chair of a meeting it is critical that you communicate well throught a meeting. This session looks at how you can improve your communication skills specifically with regard to chairing meetings.

• 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

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

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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.

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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, club meetings etc – as the issues and tips for chairing meetings are applicable to 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. Learning to run effective meetings is useful in multiple contexts.

Our course exercises and practical tips for effective chairing of meetings apply universally to all meetings.

Effective meetings efficiently and effectively achieve their goals.

Meetings are called so that a group of people can come together to discuss a number of agenda items and reach a clear conclusion on them.

Well run and effective meetings allow organisations to:

• Effectively communicate and discuss issues
• Increase motivation and productivity by achieving by in
• Ensure that the best solution to a problem is selected through seeking multiple view points and opinions.