Course Description
How many hours a day do you spend in meetings? How many of those hours are wasted because people go on and on, interrupt one another, haven't prepared adequately, or just refuse to participate?
When organizations calculate the cost of unproductive meetings, the results are astounding. Poor meetings prevent managers and staff from doing the important work that needs to be done and contribute to poor workplace morale and deteriorated teamwork.
This training course helps you solve these issues. By attending, you will learn how to be an effective facilitator and will dramatically improve your meetings!
Learning Objectives:
Find out how to stop Meeting Bullies in their tracks, bring out the Silent Sams, get your ideas heard, and leverage divergent viewpoints into creative solutions. Before you know it, you will be turning meetings into true teambuilding experiences!
- Determine when - and the best type - of meetings to have
- Prepare efficient agendas
- Start meetings on the right track
- Facilitate discussions &solicit productive meeting interaction
- Turn destructive conflict into constructive conflict
- Manage meeting interruptions
- Utilize consensus &compromise
- Stay on schedule &deflect time wasters
- Record minutes
- Prepare action plans for results
- Evaluate &follow up meetings
You'll even learn how to have meeting members speak up effectively, help others understand their ideas, and engage in productive conflict!
About Your Speaker:
Judi Clements, President of Judi Clements Training &Development, in Clifton Park, NY, is a veteran training professional who offers training, coaching and keynotes in the areas of management, communication, wellness, and customer service.
Judi has worked with many organizations on both a short-term and long-term basis to improve employee performance and develop managers. She has assisted in-house trainers with developing corporate universities, management development programs, and compliance training. Judi also is a NYS certified teacher, trained mediator, and qualified Myers Briggs Personality Type facilitator.