Course Overview:

Meetings need to be seen as positive and productive therefore much emphasis should be put on meetings being effective and efficient. Badly planned meetings not only take away valuable management time but it also causes stresses on participants who are already pressed for time, one aspect of meetings that doesn’t seem to be taken into consideration is the indirect manpower costs incurred when attending these unproductive meetings.

This training program addresses these issues by highlighting common mistakes and how best to avoid them. We share tips on keeping meetings on-track and valuable. We share some new concepts and trends in order to manage these necessities in the daily business day of executives.

Who Should Attend?

• Leaders
• Managers
• Anyone who has to attend multiple meetings in a day
• Coordinators of meetings

Course Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Course Content:

Module 1
• The high cost of meetings
o Avoid the pitfalls of bad meetings and gain the benefits of well-planned meetings
• Five Key principles of effective meetings
• Meetings Roles we need to assign to make meetings effective

Module 2
• Managing the 5 common delegates and their styles
• 7 tips for effective meetings
• Meeting must do’s

Module 3
Meetings are about making and tasking decisions
• Six kinds of decision making commonly used
• Three skills of proper analysis

Module 4
• An overview of Meeting trends in 2023
• When to decline meetings