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Good Meetings, Great Decisions!
By
Michael Podolinsky
Workshop Objectives
This workshop ensures you chair or facilitates effective meetings and contributes more effectively as a meeting participant. You will learn:
• How to prepare for effective meetings, including pre-planning, participant surveying, room selection and set-up and logistics
• How to facilitate and lead discussions for better decision-making
• How to use better questioning skills to get discussions started and to get your people to open up and share freely
• How to keep participants engaged and motivated throughout the process
• How to ensure the group’s decisions are clear, focused and delineated into Plans Of Action
• How to manage difficult people, contentious issues and USE argument effectively to bring better results from your meetings
• How to add value and build your own reputation through effective participation in meetings
Workshop Outline
- YOUR roles as the Chairperson or Facilitator: Arbitrator, Observer, Peace Keeper, Devils Advocate, Participant, Teacher
- Pre-programme Questionnaire which defines and guides your purpose, who should attend and Your appropriate meeting style
- How to set and prepare a better agenda
- Where we meet and it’s impact on the meeting
- Setting Ground Rules
- Selecting an Appropriate Decision-making Process
- 10 Ways to get people to open up
- The Psychology of Meetings
- 10 Essential traits, skills or qualities of great facilitators or meeting chairs
- The Auditory, Visual and Kinesthetic meeting participant and how to reach them ALL
- 8 Tools to keep participants at meetings engaged
- Consensus building and collaboration for results
- When to subdivide your meeting group and how to group them
- Proactive Questioning Techniques
- Proactive Feedback, Paraphrasing and Summarisation skills
- Different personalities and how to cope with difficult participants
- How to use and focus on a POA (Plan Of Action)
- When to use a more formal meeting procedure or style
- Conflict Resolution
- Proactive Listening Skills
- 3 Steps to presenting your points succinctly and distinctly
- 7 Steps to clarification of issues
- Bulleting of minutes
- Meeting evaluation and planning future meetings
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