Planning a Meeting Agenda: Learn the importance of creating a structured agenda, inviting relevant participants, and setting clear goals for productive meetings.
Engaging Participants and Encouraging Collaboration: Explore strategies to keep attendees engaged and promote collaboration during meetings, enhancing productivity and creativity.
Time Management in Meetings: Master techniques for managing time effectively during meetings, including setting time limits, guiding discussions, and minimizing delays for efficient outcomes.
Managing Challenges and Resolving Conflicts: Address common meeting challenges such as interruptions and conflicts, learning how to maintain a productive atmosphere and resolve disputes.
Action Plans and Follow-Up: Understand the importance of post-meeting actions, including developing action plans and following up on key points, to ensure that meeting outcomes translate into tangible results.
Lessons
Brief Description of Managing Meetings
The "Managing Meetings" course is designed to enhance participants' skills in planning, organizing, and facilitating effective meetings within a professional setting. Participants learn key principles of meeting management, including agenda development, time management, and fostering participation.
Module one discusses meetings, which are any gathering of two or more individuals to discuss various topics. They can be for sales performance, planning, innovation, decision-making, reflection, project problem-solving, or information sharing.
Module 2 focuses on meeting planning, emphasizing the importance of setting goals to improve meeting success. This involves focusing on the desired outcome, such as decision-making, inspiration, or status reports.
Module 3: Preparing an Agenda
Module 3 focuses on setting a well-planned agenda for successful meetings. It involves asking questions about the purpose, invitations, topics, and timeframe for each conversation. The agenda includes the date, time, place, projected length, and purpose.
Module 4: Problems and How to Deal With Them
In module four, we'll address meeting setup issues and propose solutions. We'll discuss selecting attendees, avoiding strain, and avoiding one-person talks.
Module 5: Techniques for Resolving Conflict
In meeting conflict resolution, address the issue rather than the person, rephrase problematic ideas without aggression, and shift focus from conflict to research. Ask thoughtful questions, ask open-ended questions, and request examples and comments for improvement.
Module 6: Making Decisions
Decision-making module six focuses on making informed and confident decisions by considering pros and cons, cost-benefit analyses, and swot analyses. Perito analysis, based on the 8020 rule, prioritizes changes by identifying problems they will solve.