LOGO - GO TO CISPUS HOME Strategic Meetings Management
Students present at meetings managementTired of wasting your time in meetings that lead nowhere? This hands-on session covers the essentials to plan and execute productive meetings. The course includes a wide variety of tools and techniques to help you set a group up for success and keep it on track. Identify key roles and how to use them to manage your meeting. Learn to build effective agendas. Practice facilitation techniques. You will learn ways to increase group participation and follow-through, drive better decisions, and achieve objectives. This session is a 'must' if you plan to take advanced facilitation training or frequently find yourself managing tough internal meetings, public meetings, conference calls, and other group activities.

This session rips the cover off a project or meeting and let's participants examine what made it successful. The session uses a workbook that is full of 'behind the scene' glimpses that the Cispus staff uses to manage meetings and solve tough meeting management issues. It also includes a variety of proven tools and techniques that you can adopt and use when you return home. The session is highly interactive utilizing small group practice sessions, facilitator presentations, large group sessions, and more. The session is designed to step through the anatomy of a meeting addressing what needs to occur before, during, and after every meeting.

Some of the tools and techniques we will use in the session include:

  • Strategic Analysis Worksheet which helps identify key missing information you need to plan and execute a meeting
  • Meeting Risk Analysis Matrix which help you identify the level of risk in a meeting and when to get help
  • Leveraging the various roles in meetings - how to help managers, participants, and others be successful
  • Techniques for managing discussions and keeping the group on track
  • Techniques for creating meeting objectives and evaluating your success
  • Taking the pain out of creating an agenda - strategic agendas and how to leverage them
  • Maximizing brainstorming sessions - what to do after you've captured the information
  • Logistical problems that can be easily avoided
  • Facilitating in multi-cultural environments
  • Increasing the accessibility of your meetings
  • Floor plan strategies that help get meetings off on the right foot
  • and much, much more...

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