Why attend this Meeting Management?

Many managers are spending more than 80% of their working life in meetings. Good chairing skills are crucial and everyone who attends a meeting can influence its outcome. This program shows how careful preparation and effective chairing skills can steer a meeting to a successful and efficient conclusion, saving considerable time.

Audience

Those who want to improve their chairing abilities or anyone who is tired of attending ineffectual meetings and wants to create more productive outcomes.

Content

• Planning for a meeting

• Chairing and managing meetings

• Managing the meeting process

• Achieving best practice in meetings

• Handling difficult people and situations

• Teleconference meetings

• Taking minutes

• Get your message across and make an impact

Learning Outcomes

• Preparing clear and realistic agendas

• Brief participants in a way that ensures maximum involvement and commitment to the process

• Improve your ability to chair meetings effectively

• Stimulate and control discussion with ease

• Be able to handle negative, time-wasting and disruptive behaviors effectively

• Know how to make the most of every meeting

• Determining the best tactic for the situation

• Practice negotiation techniques to develop and refine skills

• Evaluate and improve the negotiation process