Marshall Training
Managing Productive Meetings

Management Development  |  Training Skills  |  Sales Skills  |  Personal Effectiveness

Course Title
Managing Productive Meetings

Course Designed for
Anyone who uses meetings as a means of getting things done, and would like to make those meetings both interesting and productive.

Aim
The aim of this course is to enable delegates to effectively prepare for, chair and manage the commitments gained at a meeting.

Objectives
By the end of this course each delegate will be able to:

• Describe the main circumstances when holding a meeting would be the most effective way of communicating a message
• Demonstrate the seven different areas of preparation
• Consider different techniques for imparting information and making the meeting memorable
• Construct a meeting agenda incorporating different types of content
• Design various styles of agenda for controlling different kinds of communication
• Effectively manage communications and commitments before and after the meeting
• Prepare the venue for different types of meeting
• Understand and use assertive behaviour when chairing a meeting
• Anticipate areas of conflict and plan influential responses
• Recognise the seven types of difficult people
• Develop a strategy for coping with difficult people at meetings

Duration
One day: 9.30am - 4.30pm