Making the Most of Meetings

How To Get Through Meetings Without Losing The Will To Live

Ah, the dreaded meeting , we’ve all been there.

Meetings can be a great way to do all sorts of things - avoid work, apportion blame, annoy your colleagues, gossip about people in the office.

They can also be a dreadful, mind - numbing, interminable waste of time - places where bright, intelligent people can lose the will to live.

Why is that so many meetings are so long, so badly run, so unproductive? And what can be done about it?

This course will examine ways to escape from the nightmare cycle of ineffective meetings and explore ways to make the process more energetic, interesting and useful.

It covers both aspects of meetings - the procedures and the people.

The course will cover:

• when to hold meetings - and when not to
• the different kinds of meeting
• how to decide the purpose and outcome of a meeting
• how to focus on action and get something useful from a meeting
• how to prepare for a meeting to make it run smoothly
• how different people behave in meetings
• how to handle different kinds of people
• how to facilitate meetings
• how to influence a meeting
• how to have an impact in a meeting
• how to use non - verbal communication to make an impression

All courses include high quality supporting materials and email and telephone follow up for participants so that they can ask any questions which arise after the course.

Some comments from a recent course:

“ An excellent training course full of very helpful points to improve our
  meetings. “

Lisa Hendy

“ Very enjoyable course. Good balance of information and excellent visuals. “

Dara Caryotis

“ The training was brilliant and clarifies issues or ways an organisation can achieve goals through effective meetings. I would recommend it to any or all organisations. “

Grace Odongo