
Plan and prepare your meeting by defining the purpose, identifying attendees, outlining the agenda and materials, and identifying major objections to reduce stress and prevent derailment.
Open a meeting by clearly stating the topic, goal, and agenda, set ground rules, and manage time so blockers are addressed; use a parking lot for follow-ups.
Facilitate structured debates by introducing agenda topics with context, problem, and impact, and outline a strategy to address recruitment challenges. Use clarifying and rephrasing to ensure understanding and productive objections.
Facilitate discussions using the right pooling approach and asking why to uncover root causes. Use verbal investigation and a fishbone diagram to lay groundwork for long-term resolution.
As a meeting facilitator, stimulate thinking by challenging internal filters and using the lifting restrictions technique to spark ideas from difficult participants, from unlimited budgets to tight limits.
Finalize the agreement by selecting a solution and creating an action plan, assign responsibility, and frame an assertive, non-confrontational approach for conflict resolution.
Learn to establish clear meeting roles—chairperson, minute taker, and attendees—and enforce rules to direct proceedings, document decisions, and ensure timely, fair, and focused meetings in both small and large settings.
Review and update your action plan to continue improving your managing skills and guide your progress across the days, weeks, months, and years to come.
To get the best from a department the manager will need to balance organization skills with an awareness of the workforce, and their needs. For the truth is that real leadership lies in the talking and motivation of people, an art which has gathered more than its fair share or mystique over the years. But discovering motivators, challenges, integrating opinions, aligning people and building consensus is usually done through facilitation - discussion skills: Managing Structured Meetings skills.
Bad meetings waste a fortune. This program speaks of the basics of meetings, a leader’s role in meetings, guidelines for a successful meeting and techniques for uniting, focusing, and mobilizing participants in a meeting.
Managing Structured Meetings require skills and techniques in order for the dialogue to achieve its purpose. Poorly managed people are waste time and hurt your credibility as Facilitator. Consistently leaving a poor impression with the attendees will haunt you if left unchecked.
This training course is designed to give you the basic tools you need to manage meetings. You will learn simple and complex techniques that will give you the confidence to facilitate structured meetings, and leave a positive and lasting impression.
This is a hands-on workshop and your participation will help make it a valuable experience. Use this time to begin the process of developing your Managing Structured Meetings Skills!
What you will get from this training:
Identify meeting basics
Demonstrate a Facilitator’s role in a meeting
Learn pulling strategies to clarify or find root-causes
Use techniques for analysing ideas and managing the debates
Identify common meeting roles