Leading Effective Meetings

Meetings need to be both creative and productive in order to be truly effective.

Do your meetings currently produce concrete results? Are solutions creative and innovative? Are your meetings focused and structured? Do meeting participants come prepared and do they all contribute actively? What is the energy/atmosphere like in the meetings?

Meetings are the engine of an organisation. This is where ideas are exchanged, brainstorming is conducted and decisions are made that drives the organisation forward. These days, people tend to spend more than 50% of their time in meetings. Leading focussed meetings has therefore become more important than ever.

This meeting programme teaches the skills to lead meetings that are both creative and productive. Learning takes place during the team's normal business meetings to ensure that the new skills focus on producing concrete business results.

Benefits

Participants will:

• Learn to create precise and focused meeting agendas.
• Establish a meeting culture where all participants need to be well prepared.
• Adopt a meeting structure that engages all participants fully.
• Master the skills for leading meetings that encourage participants to generate ideas, make decisions and take action, not simply to debate.
• Remain focused and results-oriented, thereby potentially reducing the overall number of meetings needed.