MANAGING MEETINGS
Duration: 1 day
"How to waste less time in meetings and achieve better results"
Meetings with clients and colleagues are an inescapable part of professional life. They are also very time consuming and therefore costly. Most partners will spend up to 50% of their time in meetings, sometimes more!! They are even more costly if they are poorly managed, not only for you but also for others who attend.
The way you conduct the business of a meeting and chair it will have a significant impact on the clients, colleagues or prospective clients who attend. Your performance in a meeting can go a long way to shaping the perception those attending have of you and the firm.
There are a number of things you can do to make meetings more productive, create a better impression and reduce time wasted.
This course concentrates on those things you as individuals can do to improve the management of meetings you chair and get more from meetings
you attend.
Objectives
By the end of the programme participants will:
- Understand the skills required to make meetings work more effectively
- Know how to improve their personal performance at meetings
Contents
- Why meetings go wrong
- Improving the outcome of meetings
- People
- Planning
- Progress
- Chairing a meeting successfully
- Setting the purpose and objectives
- Encouraging contribution
- Managing conflict
- Preparing accurate minutes
- Controlling the agenda
- Improving personal performance at meetings
Who should attend:
Managers and professional staff who attend a significant number of external or internal meetings
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