
Learn to plan and chair effective meetings with a clear purpose and pre-distributed agenda. Master five components—preparing, opening, controlling, closing, and post-meeting follow-up—to keep the meeting focused on its purpose.
Determine if a meeting is needed, define its purpose and outcomes, and identify attendees. Craft a concise agenda with topics, leaders, durations, usually six items, and invitations.
Open the meeting on time, confirm the agenda and outcomes, set ground rules, and anchor discussion to the purpose while managing a parking lot.
Master the controlling phase by sticking to the agenda, guiding discussions, and ensuring timely action items and decisions, while managing diverse voices and facilitation techniques for a constructive meeting climate.
Close a productive meeting by summarizing decisions and actions, securing group agreement on next steps and future plans, and confirming minutes circulation for clear accountability.
Follow up after a meeting by reviewing how it went, finalizing and distributing proofread minutes, and diarizing deadlines to follow up on actions and decisions for improvement.
Run the course’s model of preparation, opening strongly, controlling the meeting, closing strongly, and follow up to deliver clear outcomes.
This course is aimed at individuals who want to improve their meeting management and facilitation skills, ensuring that meetings are purposeful, well-organized, and result-oriented.
This course will cover the key areas of preparing, planning, controlling, closing and following up on meetings.
Specifically it will cover:
How to properly prepare for a meeting
How to open the open strongly and with purpose
How to effectively chair a meeting by managing the agenda and the attendees
How to close a meeting so it is well summarised and concluded on a strong note
What to consider and do after the meeting
There are seven sections in this course:
Introduction to running effective meetings
Stage 1: Preparing for a meeting
Stage 2: Opening a meeting
Stage 3: Controlling a meeting
Stage 4: Closing a meeting
Stage 5: Following up on a meeting
Course summary
Each section consists of a brief and informative video to present the content for each section, with quick multiple choice quiz questions available for sections 2 to 6 to test your knowledge and understanding of the content and its application.
This course is designed for anyone with no, or limited, knowledge of how to effectively chair a meeting and how it works.