Chairing Meetings Training Course - Run Faster, More Effective Meetings

Course overview

Meetings are an integral part of company life. They offer an essential forum for sharing information, debate, planning and decision-making.

When poorly run and managed, they are also very frustrating as people feel that they are wasting their time and not getting anything done.

Carefully planned and managed meetings save time and help businesses reach their objectives.

This one day course will show you, and let you practice, what it takes to organise and run productive meetings that people will look forward to attending.

By the end of this course you will understand the why and how of:

Preparation:
How to prepare for a meeting so that everyone is clear about what their role is, and what the aim of the meeting is?
During The Meeting:
How to ensure that each agenda item is introduced and dealt with effectively.
How to structure discussions to encourage participation, build a group consensus and ensure that a clear decision is taken on each agenda item.
How to deal with time wasters and disruptive participants.
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.

It does not require any prior experience. If you do chair meetings already it is always helpful if you can bring with you examples of issues and difficulties that you’ve had (of whatever type) to date.

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
Nonverbal communication
Improving listening skills
Barriers to listening effectively
Asking effective questions
Types of questions

Locations

London Training Centre
8 - 12 New Bridge St
London, EC4N 7BE
Tel: 0203 143 8100

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

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: