Effective Meetings
Duration
1 day
Target Audience
Targetted for those who are new to meetings, or new to chairing meetings and is often delivered for teams who will be attending meetings together, including staff representative councils.Key Objectives
At the end of the one day workshop, delegates will be able to prepare for, run and maintain a record of short group meetings.
Outline
- Opening activity
- What is a meeting? What makes an effective meeting?
- Preparing for a meeting
- Design of meeting agendas
- Role of the Chair in meetings
- Balancing contribution and maintaining control in a meeing
- Questioning and listening whilst participating in a meeting
- Identifying Body Language as clues to what is going on
- Helpful and unhelpful behaviours during the meeting
- Personality ‘types' and hidden agendas with meeting participants
- Making notes during the meeting and producing minutes after a meeting
- How to be an effective participant during the meeting
