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Effective Meetings Training Course - One Day

Learn practical tools that you can use in real-life situations. Effective Meetings Training
  • Learn the skills for super effective meetings
  • Meetings need to be purposeful - goal focused conversations
  • Plan the meeting by agreeing an agenda
  • Communicate clearly, using specific language
  • Quickly manage conflict and distracting behaviour
  • Manage the railroader, the cynic, clown and broken record
  • Have the courage to make a logical decision
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Learn in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere with people who are facing similar situations as you.
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The course was well planned and went according to schedule and content. Contained valuable information. The trainer's presentation was well prepared and to the point and adhered to time. Focused on the matter. Excellent.

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Effective Meetings Training - One Day Course Overview

Day One - Morning

  • Introductions
  • The high cost of meetings
  • Five skills of effective meetings
  • The role of the chairperson
  • The need for an agenda

Day One - Afternoon

  • Managing the delegates
  • Make the decision
  • Six kinds of decision
  • Exercise effective meeting
  • Action planning

Effective Meetings Training - Day One - AM

Introduction

The purpose of this course is to answer the following question.

“How can we have more productive meetings that are Goal focused, well designed, well managed, well prepared and held in the correct frame of mind?”

The high cost of meetings

If you are going to have a meeting, then make sure that the value derived from the meeting outweighs the cost of the meeting.

This course sets out the method by which you may avoid the pitfalls of bad meetings and reap the benefits of good meetings.

  1. The cost of the meeting is very high. Therefore, the value of the meeting must be even higher.
  2. Don't hold a 2k meeting for a 1k decision
  3. What are the three practical alternatives to having a face to face meeting?
  4. What are the benefits to having a face to face meeting?

The five qualities of productive meetings

In order for your meetings to be more productive, they should conform to the following five key principles:

  1. Clear Purpose
    There must be a definite purpose to the meeting - Too many meetings drift on without purpose.
  2. Accurate Language
    The language must be focused and accurate. Not too much ambiguity, vagueness, repetition or digression.
  3. Planned Approach
    The meeting should have an agenda, a definite structure.
  4. Rational conflict management and decision methods.
    The meeting will often be held in order to make some kind of decision, or to analyse a difficult situation, therefore, the meeting may create disagreements and some conflicts. Such Decisions, analysis and conflicts need to be discussed and aired rationally, not emotionally: With logic, not with upset or anger.
  5. Positive atmosphere
    To be most valuable, the meeting must be held in the spirit of cooperation: not antagonism.

The role of the chairperson

The chair person is a member of the meeting who directs and coordinates the activities of the delegates.
Notes on the chairing the meeting skills.

The agenda

The agenda is a written document that states the purpose of the meeting. It gives the meeting a structure.

The minutes / notes

The minutes of the meeting are the written notes (or recordings) of the main essentials of the meeting. Notes on note taking skills.

Effective Meetings Training - Day One - PM

The Delegates

The delegates are those people who attend the meeting. They come in various types:

  • The railroader
    The railroader is the person who tries to dominate the meeting by pushing his ideas on the others without proper thought.
  • The joker
    The joker misuses humour and detracts rather than adds value to the meeting.
  • The digresser
    The digresser is the person who cannot keep his mind on the issue at hand and talks for too long about non-related or trivial issues.
  • The cynic
    The cynic is the person who criticises all ideas without having any positive or practical ideas of his own to offer in their place.
  • The 'broken record'
    The person who is obsessive over one issue: The delegate who cannot stop from thinking and talking about only one thing.

Most meetings are about making decisions

  • Don't procrastinate unnecessarily on making the decisions.
  • Don't be tempted to endlessly delay making the decision on the grounds that you do not yet have perfect knowledge.
  • You need to decide even in the face of incomplete and uncertain knowledge.

Decision matrix methods

There are six types of decision:

  1. Yes or No? Decisions. (Should we or should we not.)
  2. Which one, What kind? Decisions
  3. What is the priority order? Decisions
  4. What is the correct logical sequence? Decisions.
  5. Problem cause solution. Decisions.
  6. Problem implication and countermeasure. Decisions.

Three skills of proper analysis.

  1. Analyse the MEANING of key words and phrases. Agree a SINGLE meaning of your key terms.
  2. Analysis: Analysis is the act of breaking complex concepts into their constituent parts.
  3. Analysis of problem cause and solution. Assume that all problems have multiple causes, each of which suggest potential solutions.

The importance of taking good notes

  1. In the meeting take good written notes.
  2. Mental notes. (Memory training).
  3. Make up your written notes.
  4. Make up your action plans.
  5. Review your notes. Don't ignore them.

Meeting skills. A Practice Exercise.

Let us hold a meeting in order to come to definite conclusions.
Let us see how well you do.
Discussion and questions.

Summary and Action Plan.

The course content was excellent and pitched at the right level. I liked that it wasn't 'fluffy'. Perfect level of real life examples to put the content into context. I loved how the trainer presented the course; the clear diagrams and pics made the content easier to remember. I thought the straight-forward, no-nonsense, delivery was spot on.

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In-House Training Course Pricing and Proposal

This course is available from just £1,950 +VAT per day as a bespoke in-house group training course in the UK and worldwide.

It has been designed to provide a similar experience to our open courses, however we can tailor the content to fit your specific needs. In-House Group training costs from just £1,950 +VAT per day (international training price varies). Plus, hotel accommodation for trainer if necessary. (Premier Inn type: not the Hilton!)

This price includes:

  • Quality training delivered by an experienced trainer
  • Full days training
  • Full colour course handbook
  • Preparation work
  • Travel costs and time
  • Written action plan to take away
  • Access to our post course portal
  • Access to our on-line leadership and management decision matrix templates and tools
  • Plus three months FREE telephone coaching to answer any on-going questions

Contact Us Today

Please call us on +44 (0)20 3856 3037 to discuss your requirements for the in-house training course.

If you want to know more about any other Management Training Courses, or their suitability for you or a colleague, call us on +44 (0)20 3856 3037.

The Course Training Method

The training method follows this general pattern - the training is very interactive and interesting:

  1. The trainer gives a clear explanation of the point in question with specific examples.
  2. Then, the delegates practice by doing an exercise with each other.
  3. The delegates practice by doing an exercise with the trainer.
  4. All points are supported with full written notes to take away.
  5. Delegates are asked to write down an associated action, for each point made.
    (At the end of the day, we have about twenty such actions, from which the delegates choose six which are the most personally meaningful).

Note: we do not believe in placing people in any situation of embarrassment by demanding that they 'perform' in front of the whole group. So you can relax: come on this course and be at ease; ready to learn new skills!

After the course, how can you keep the training-momentum going?

We understand that it is important to keep the momentum of the training going, in the weeks after the course. The ideas and methods that you learnt during the course need to be implemented, not just for the two weeks after the course, but for all time!

In order to make that happen, we will give you continued, on-going support after the training course has finished.

  • PDF download of the training handbook
  • Newsletters containing training blogs and articles, which will provide you with ongoing training and good ideas, whenever you need them.
  • Fun questionnaires that are designed to tease out your strengths and weaknesses and then give you ideas as to how you might improve your performance.
  • Decision matrices that will allow you to make decisions and prioritise tasks into the correct order.
  • Summary diagrams and mind maps from the course.
  • Conflict scripts that give you examples of how the conflict method can be used, in real life situations.
  • Free eBook the effective leader manager.

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Effective Meetings Training Course Summary

In order that meetings can to be seen as being positive and productive, they need to be effective. Badly planned meetings will be seen as a waste of time by attendees. The high cost of meetings is often another cause for concern and should be taken into account when organising meetings.

This Effective Meetings training course examines the common mistakes which are made and how to avoid them. We will show how to make your meetings more purposeful, as well as developing your skills to keep meetings on-track. We discuss the importance and roles of the chairperson and minute taker. Learn how to gain co-operation from attendees, manage any conflict, or attendees who are disruptive or cynical; together with how to make logical decisions and action planning.

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