Communication Options

How to Facilitate Meetings Effectively

Unproductive meetings waste money, time and morale. In this training, participants learn how to run their own meetings more effectively.

Key skills include:

identifying types of meetings and their purposes
setting agendas and tracking agenda items
optimizing attendees' participation when appropriate
separating content and process issues
eliminating energy-draining repetitiveness
choosing appropriate processes (e.g., information-sharing, decision-making, problem-solving, etc.) for specific agenda items
understanding the roles of facilitator, manager, group memory recorder,
and other participants in meetings
choosing communication styles that build group cohesion
following-up on agendas and maintaining accountability

Participants will leave this training knowing how to efficiently move a meeting along and keep it on track in ways that boost people's enthusiasm, attentiveness and productivity.

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