Top Ten Tips: Managing Meetings

Meetings are the bane of the modern workplace. Whatever level you’re at, i think we have all sat in meetings that shouldn’t have been called, or that you have no interest or input into. If you calculate, roughly, the cost per head of each meeting, is it truly value for money?

How many meetings have you sat in that were really just emails? How much time have you wasted in unproductive and dull meetings? Use these ten tips to refresh your meetings, from deciding on the venue to looking at energisers or ice breakers, from creating agendas to taking minutes, from the importance of recapping to staying on time and finishing on time - each step helps make your meeting the event everyone wants to be part of.

This course looks as levels of professionalism, but how to keep your meeting interesting and, more importantly, productive. The format of the course is simple, each module includes 2 tips/discussion points and are bookmarked by an introduction and a wrap up session. There is also as simple, optional project - which looks at formatting your agenda, minutes and action tracker.

The format of the course takes in voice over presentations, simple animations and face to camera so it aims to play to everyones preferred learning style.