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Our Running Effective Meetings Training Course will enable you to run shorter meetings that always have a clear output. It will also give you some vital tools to help you keep your meetings focused and improve input from meeting attendees. You will learn about have to create an effective meeting agenda and will have the opportunity to gain feedback on one of your own agendas during the training. You will also learn how to handle some of the challenges of running meetings, including keeping them running on time and handling challenging attendees.
Understand the importance of having an effective meeting agenda and the impact of not having one. Learn what to include in a meeting agenda and gain some ideas on how best to lay it out. Discover how best to communicate the agenda to meeting attendees.
Learn the difference between an agenda item and an agenda outcome and why getting this wrong will lead to unproductive meetings. Learn how to create clear meeting outcomes so that every agenda item reaches a conclusion with a clear output. Review a meeting agenda/outcome you have created for one of your own meetings, gain some feedback and make some amends.
Gain some simple yet highly effective tips and tricks to keep your meetings running on time and topic. Understand how best to handle late-comers and how to best manage the agenda and timings. Learn the principle of ground-rules, how best to establish ground-rules and how to stick to them. Consider some ground-rules that would be effective to put into place for your face-to-face, virtual and hybrid meetings.
Learn what the role of the facilitator is by exploring the “Process-Content-People” framework. Consider your strengths and your development areas. Explore the use of questions as a crucial tool for facilitating meetings and understand which types of questions to use and which types to avoid.
Discover the different types of challenging attendees you may encounter when facilitating meetings and learn some strategies on how best to handle them. Identify some of the challenges that relate specifically to your meetings and consider which strategies you can use to overcome them.
" I was actually really surprised at how easy it is to make mistakes when running meetings (I was making them all!) but with some really simple tools and frameworks it is also easy to get it right. I really think this course will transform the meetings I run and I wish I had gone on it sooner."
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This training course is available for face-to-face delivery. We will travel to your offices and create a fully immersive experience which includes theory, demonstrations, activities, action planning and the added bonus of your employees being able to meet and network with colleagues.
This training course can be delivered virtually — either as complete days or over a series of bite-sized modules, helping you to manage you time better. We can adapt the course length and format to suit your needs and we can also offer a hybrid option.
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As a coach and trainer with over twenty years' experience, I founded Gravity seventeen years ago to better inspire and develop leaders. Since then, I've worked globally with over a hundred organisations across diverse sectors, delivering relevant, practical, and engaging training courses. I'd be thrilled to bring this expertise to your company, enhancing your communication skills, management and leadership development programs.
"Gilly was excellent at explaining concepts and prompting us to think and come up with ideas. She also made it relatable and fun."
"Gilly had such a lovely manner, warm, friendly and knowledgeable. She makes you think you can achieve anything."
"Gilly is so professional, approachable, knowledgeable and very motivational."
This training course can be customised to suit your needs in terms of course length, course format and course content. We can also build a fully bespoke training programme for you which can include aspects of this course along with aspects of other courses and topics.
