Is your staff comfortable with 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 Outcomes

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 Methodology