Get your meetings on time, on track, on purpose. In this workshop you learn how to plan, organize and run successful meetings, and how to maximize your productivity in the meetings you are required to attend. By adopting a business-planning approach you increase the effectiveness of your meetings and save valuable time.
This hybrid edition incorporates the latest research on meetings and covers in-person, virtual and hybrid formats, with structured activities and examples that let participants practise new behaviours during the session.
What we cover
Introduction Meeting frustrations, the challenges organizations face in conducting effective meetings, and the solutions that make an organization WorkingSm@rt in Meetings.
Unit 1: Pre-Meeting Requirements The essential steps for effective preparation, as chairperson or participant, including creating an agenda that leads to productive outcomes.
Unit 2: During-Meeting Requirements Executing well-planned meetings so they become an efficient communication tool that ensures alignment, promotes a bias for action and enhances teamwork.
Unit 3: Post-Meeting Actions Best practices for translating meeting outcomes into actionable items, and effective follow-up so tasks are completed on time.
Unit 4: Your Solutions and Action Plan Identify solutions to your own frustrations and create your Campaign for WorkingSm@rt in Meetings: a concise action plan to improve meeting efficiency.
What you will leave able to do
Apply a proven planning process to meetings
Design an effective agenda to increase accountability
Run a meeting with a bias for action
Know precisely how to prepare to attend a meeting
Keep a meeting on track and avoid the common pitfalls that create meeting frustrations
Use a quick, effective process for evaluating meetings
Apply virtual and hybrid meeting best practices
Every private session is adjusted to your tools, your files and the outcomes you are trying to hit. The final agenda is confirmed with your facilitator before delivery.
For any organization that wants shorter, sharper meetings with clear outcomes and follow-through, in person, virtual or hybrid.
Executives, managers, team and project leaders, supervisors, technical and sales professionals and administrators
Anyone with a busy meeting schedule who wants to get their time back
Comprehensive Learning Guide
Meeting tools and templates
A refresher seat in any public WorkingSm@rt workshop, any time, for life, free
Live online — instructor-led, fully interactive, no travel
In-person — at your offices or a venue of your choice
Half-day session
Pricing depends on delivery mode, group size and how much customisation you want. Tell us the shape and we will quote it.