Highlights
Know-how helps you avoid unproductive, chaotic, or unnecessary meetings
Establishing clear structure and goals is essential to a productive meeting
Objectives
- Enhanced skill to chair a well run, productive meeting
- Appreciation of the importance of clear structure and goals in meetings
Learning Tools
- Discussion, exchange, video clips
- Role plays, simulations, improvisation
- Self-examination, peer/trainer feedback
- Filmed sessions for on-the-spot debriefing and later reference
Take-aways
- Honed chairing skills for future meetings and long-term career goals
- Tools and checklist for future use
Prerequisite
- Participating to Make a Positive Impact or equivalent experience
- Highly recommended: Boosting Your Leadership Capabilities; Soft Skills & Your Managerial Style; Pitching Your Ideas to Get a "Yes"; Q&A Sessions: Professional Hacks; Collaborating with an International Team
Seminar Essentials
Meetings from hell and how to avoid them
- What they look like and recognizing warning signs
- Taking precautions to ensure meetings run smoothly
Advance preparation
- Establishing clear guidelines for your meetings for everyone's benefit
- Ensuring structure and purpose
- Distributing the agenda in advance
- Limiting the number of attendees and inviting only concerned parties
- Leaving enough time for other concerns
In the spotlight
- Establishing a policy of punctuality for a meeting that respects its time constraints
- Redefining the structure of what makes a good meeting
- Using body language and eye contact effectively
- Listening actively and showing engagement
- How to encourage - and limit - attendees' participation