Magic Meetings

Half day

Staff Management Development Program - Effective Meetings

When asked for a list of Time Wasters most managers would include useless meetings on their list.  This module looks at both the mechanical and the human side of meetings so that you’ll not only learn correct meeting procedures but also some techniques to ensure that everyone there gets to contribute.

Who Should Attend

Anyone who has to organise and run meetings.  This module is typically popular with:

• Managers
• Committee members eg. School P&F/P&Cs, Sporting Clubs, Charities
• Local Councillors
• Not-for-profit organisation board members

Objectives

By the end of this module you will be able to plan and run productive, short meetings that run on time and achieve agreed-upon actions by:

• Stipulating the purpose of the meeting beforehand.

• Inviting only the people who need to be there.

• Setting agendas that include timing, what to bring and who will speak and distributing them before the meeting.

• Chairing the meeting to ensure that the meeting starts on time, the agenda is adhered to and the level of input from participants is controlled.

• Preparing minutes with action points and due-by dates.

• Following up action points.

Content:

Tragic v Magic Meetings 

Planning a Team Meeting 

 Chairing a meeting

Opening the Meeting - Creating the right tone

Parliamentary procedures play reading

“Desert Survival” game