This training programme encompasses all aspects of meetings – from planning and chairing them to producing professionally-presented minutes and even evaluating the effectiveness and cost efficiency of meetings in your organisation. If required, this programme can be broken down into a half day on Ma
Managing Meetings and Minute Taking
Aim:
This training programme encompasses all aspects of meetings – from planning and chairing them to producing professionally-presented minutes and even evaluating the effectiveness and cost efficiency of meetings in your organisation. If required, this programme can be broken down into a half day on Managing Meetings and a half day on Minute Taking.
Course Objectives:
Gain clarity on whether a meeting is or isn’t appropriate
Understand how to chair a meeting effectively
Develop ability to produce professional, accurate minutes
Course Content:
Do we really need a meeting? Exploring alternative options to ensure that a meeting is the best use of everyone’s time
Why meetings fail – the top 8 reasons
Planning for the meeting – setting the 3 levels of outcome, ensuring the right people are invited, creating an effective agenda
Chairman’s preparation checklist
Meeting room layout and seating plan – where to place your allies and your trouble makers
The meeting in process – understanding group behaviour and dynamics
Key behaviour skills of the successful Chairperson
Rules of Order – to be followed in formal meetings
Dealing with difficult participants and situations
The Chairperson as a facilitator
Avoiding or resolving conflict
Participation, presentation and influencing skills for attendees
The importance of listening
Power struggles and hidden agendas – their effects on meetings
11 sure fire ways to wreck a meeting
Steering the meeting towards a conclusion
Minutes – what to include, what to leave out
Sections, styles and layouts of minutes
Who is doing what and when
Headings and numbering
Useful words for minutes
Writing in the active rather than passive tense
Writing concisely, professionally and clearly
Review and follow-up – how cost effective and efficient are your meetings? A checklist to measure their effectiveness in your organisation.
About Us
Established in 1993, Learning Curves specialises in personal development training and coaching. Offering a unique range of programmes designed for both organisations and individuals, Learning Curves provides a ‘one stop shop’ for all your development needs.
As the founder and Managing Director of Learning Curves, Di McLanachan has over 25 years experience working with a great many clients across the UK and internationally in all aspects of business training and personal development coaching. Di is a Master Practitioner of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and best-selling author of ‘NLP for Business Excellence’. She has appeared on BBC1 and Meridian Television and was the pioneer of live, phone-in coaching on BBC Radio Solent.
Di has been a fully qualified and accredited coach since 2000 and has been Head of Corporate for the biggest coach training organisation in the UK. She writes business books for Hodder & Stoughton and specialises in helping her clients overcome self sabotage to achieve personal excellence.
Our Vision
At Learning Curves we believe that effective training and development hold the key to organisational success through personal achievement.
Our Mission
We strive to make a difference through innovative training and coaching programmes which motivate and introduce new knowledge and skills. Above all, we aim to help all our clients become the very best that they can be.
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