Effective Meetings

This workshop provides specific techniques to immediately improve meetings. It discusses how to set up meetings, how to conduct them, and how to move things along. It also explores the individual roles and responsibilities of being a successful facilitator and an active participant.

Topics Covered:

• defining the types of meetings and their purposes
• identifying barriers to achieving results
• discovering techniques for idea generation
• using "the meeting planner"
• isolating destructive participant behaviors
• learning how to keep a meeting on track
• practicing effective meeting facilitation techniques
• designing follow up mechanisms and action plans