Running Meetings

Meetings are a core and vital activity in most organisations for initiating discussion, exchanging views and information, and taking decisions. Yet ‘meeting fatigue’ has become a common complaint in today’s time-pressured environment. Too often meetings lack the structure, format and leadership required to make the most of the time investment of those present.

Benefits

• Decide when to conduct meetings, based on cost and benefits
• Recognise the “task” and “social” reasons behind meetings
• Plan for meetings that are goal orientated, efficient and results driven
• Manage discussions and use intervention skills to produce the best thinking outcomes
• Take the impact of culture into account when setting up and running meetings

Audience

This programme is designed for all individuals who wish to enhance their skills in planning and conducting effective meetings, and who desire to create a climate of shared solutions.

Some key topics

• The meeting experience
• Approach - task needs (content) and social needs (process)
• Planning effective meetings
• Think PROCESS – Purpose, Roles, Outcomes, Communications, Expectations, Sequence, Schedule
• Managing meeting discussions – dialogue versus debate
• Another meeting experience
• Teleconferencing
• One small step
• Action planning

Methods

The Running Meetings programme is available as a 1 day classroom programme, but can also be adapted to alternative formats and lengths, including virtual classroom delivery.