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Course duration
1 day
Public Course price
£205
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Meeting Skills for the Information Age

To Dramatically Improve Meeting Effectiveness across Your Organisation

Meeting Skills for the Information Age provides the mix of personal skills and technology solutions required for the planning and management of meetings in large organisations.

We have combined Instructor Led Training with the Meeting-FacilitatorTM - leading edge meeting management software to embed the routine use of best practice.

Course Benefits

  • Management skills combined with electronic scheduling and productivity tools
  • Enhanced meeting skills for those acting as chairperson and meeting participants
  • Increase in productivity through more effective use of meeting time
  • Better quality meetings, through use of a consistent, repeatable, best-practice approach to meetings management - learning by doing.
  • Improved efficiency of meetings administration, notification to participants and follow-up of minutes and actions

Instructor-Led Training

Providing the combination of personal and technical skills required for planning and managing productive meetings.

The Impact of Meetings

  • The cost of meetings (financial/morale)
  • Why meetings can cause stress
  • The positive impact of a great meeting

Planning & Preparing for a Meeting

  • The essentials of a good meeting
  • The meeting purpose and objectives
  • Planning an effective Agenda
  • Using electronic scheduling - Microsoft Outlook & Lotus Notes
  • Using the In-house process for booking facilities and equipment

Meeting Management

  • Using the agenda to structure a meeting
  • Meeting-Time Management techniques
  • How to record minutes easily
  • How to use the Meeting-FacilitatorTM for repeatable effective meetings

Personal Meeting Skills

  • Contributing positively
  • Speaking with confidence
  • Listening and Questioning skills
  • Techniques to encourage participation
  • How to identify personality types and deliver your message for maximum impact
  • How to encourage group ownership


Read about the Meeting-FacilitatorTM software.

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What they're saying about this course...


"Your deep experience meant you could give us practical insights into how you'd tackled issues in the past and how theory can translate into real life." ML - Public Relations Consultant

"The content was challenging and made even more helpful, interesting and memorable by group participation" HS - Business Owner

"An extremely good course. A great balance of information giving and practice." FM - HR Professional
 
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