Chairing Meetings Training

Course Overview

Train you to conduct meetings that flow to achieve maximum impact or success; and tailor your capabilities to each individual so that you can harness the strengths of your colleagues, and overcome any weaknesses they may possess. By raising your management abilities, you will raise the impact of your meetings on all who attend!

Topics covered in this course

Effective meetings require principles and roles

Understand what makes a good meeting and what behaviours and roles disturb it. Explore forms of meeting and discover what makes them effective, whilst exploring the roles of facilitator, chairperson and minute keeper. You will practise speed chatting, collaborative flipchart sketches, questionnaires and reflections, giving you useful tools to make your next meeting run better.

Using Meeting Agendas

Discover how well-devised agendas – prioritising agenda items with meticulous y-axis scheduling and purposeful x-axis attendance guidance for maximum efficiency – simplify the process of reconvening.

Managing participation

Learn here how to read the group and to develop a strategy for what you can do in the meeting to create the conditions for effective results.

Reviewing meetings

This session will consist of presentations where participants have the opportunity to deliver their work and also receive feedback from peers through group reviews.

Meeting skills practice

This meeting will help you fine tune your Meeting skills and learn even more form our experienced observers. You will have the opportunity for review and feedback at the end of each meeting. You will leave each encounter more confident as a Meeting leader.

Wrap up

At the end of the session, your team will have the opportunity to ask questions and develop a plan of action. Don’t miss out!