Effective Meetings

We’ve all sat through meetings that seemed pointless, drawn-out, irrelevant, or even hostile. Research from 2022 indicates that people consider 71% of the meetings they attend to be unproductive. Every minute you spend in an inefficient meeting is time you’ll never get back. It benefits everyone to learn how to make meetings valuable, productive, and satisfying.
Effective meetings are opportunities to make decisions, agree on priorities, and innovate together. They provide a platform for sharing ideas, resolving conflicts, and planning action. The ability to run efficient and engaging meetings of any kind is a sign of good leadership and teamwork.
This course equips you with the skills and strategies to plan, structure, and facilitate meetings that produce real results. You’ll learn how to foster active participation, manage challenging behaviors, and transform meetings into useful sessions that propel your team forward.

• Do you feel like you waste a lot of your day in unproductive meetings?
• Have you ever invited too many people to a meeting, for fear of leaving someone out?
• Are you uncertain how to plan meetings and give them a clear purpose, objective, and structure?
• Do you feel unsure how to deal with difficult behaviors from people in meetings?
• Would you benefit from mastering the art of meeting facilitation?

By the end of this session you will be able to:

• Plan and structure meetings so that they achieve their purposes and objectives

• Use strategies that enable all attendees to join in and contribute appropriately

• Manage a variety of challenging behaviors in meetings