The Productive Meeting Process
Is your staff comfortable running a meeting? Do they know how to organize the meeting, create an agenda, take minutes, etc? If you compute the number of employees in attendance times their hourly rate, you’ll realize that holding meetings is an expensive proposition. It makes sense to use meeting time more wisely. This course will help your staff run productive meetings, resulting in savings of time and money.
Course Description and Outcome
A productive meeting can lead to sharing information in staff meetings, solving problems with a group, focusing on task-force efforts, and can offer a number of benefits to the participants and the organization. The benefits include:
- Creating identity for the group
- Providing a forum for feedback
- Offering opportunities for generating creative solutions
- Building commitment to group decisions
- Allowing the group to build a collaborative spirit and direction
Training Topics to be covered
- Preparing for the meeting
- Creating an agenda
- Taking meeting notes and minutes
- Asking questions
- Responding to feedback
- Using Robert’s Rules of Order (Parliamentary Procedure)
- Getting consensus
- Wrapping-up the meeting
- Preparing for future meetings
Learning Time-frame 1-day
Training Kit Includes
An Instructor's guide to assist you in set-up, presentation and more; an electronic
copy of the workbook with the license to print up to 25 copies; and
PowerPoint slides to highlight important information.
Training Methodology
Lecture, exercises, break-out sessions, group discussion and mock meeting