Effective Meeting Management

COURSE DESCRIPTION

In 2005, talent development and coaching firm conducted a survey in the United States with findings that 25 million hours per year were spent in meetings in the U.S. alone, and almost half of those hours were unproductive time wasted.

Another survey reports that 40 to 60 per cent of most managers’ working hours are spent in meetings. Your career essentially depends on profitable meetings. Meetings cannot be escaped. Meetings are important to establish understanding, devise solutions, and get things rolling.

If you are managing work, implementing new projects, accumulating, and evaluating results, then you will always be involved in meetings. Your opportunity in business depends on your skills to run successful, effective, and productive meetings.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• By the end of the Effective Meeting Management Training Program, professionals of this course will be able to:
  • Comprehend the key principles to productivity
  • Learn to function as a meeting facilitator
  • Learn techniques on how to control a meeting
  • Determine when and how to intervene in a situation
  • Manage demanding behavior from co-workers
  • Critically review a meeting
  • Improve the effectiveness of business meetings
  • Learn to manage disruptions and  the disruptors of the meeting
  • Conduct team meeting
  • Plan and prepare for different kind of meetings
  • Identify the right participants for the set meetings
  • Create clear, specific, and concise meeting agendas
  • Set up a meeting time and venue for maximum effectiveness
  • Learn to integrate electronic options and technology for remote participants
  • Define and delegate meeting roles & responsibilities
  • Note effective meeting minutes for future reference and action plan