Chairing meetings

Being able to chair meetings effectively is an essential skill for today’s managers, senior leaders or anyone who conducts a wide-range of meetings on a regular basis.

Poorly managed meetings can fail to achieve their objectives and lead to a loss of valuable time. Successful meetings provide an essential forum for planning, debate, sharing information and decision-making.

This web workshop provides attendees with the vital skills and techniques for leading concise, structured and meaningful meetings.

In addition, this web workshop will explore the role of the chair in getting the best out of meetings. It will provide information on carrying through the role of chair and will consider some of the difficulties that can confront “the person in the chair”. The web workshop will be especially useful for those who want to ensure full participation and commitment from everyone present whilst reducing the length of a meeting that they are chairing.

Objectives

By the end of the web workshop delegates will be able to:

• Recognise the importance of good planning and setting effective agendas
• Learn how to prepare for and structure meetings to ensure that they move through the agenda effectively while encouraging debate and full participation
• Provide you with tried and tested techniques to maximise individual input and get the best results from your meeting
• Understand why meetings often fail and take actions to better facilitate the decision-making process to achieve results
• Develop appropriate methods, behaviour and communications for successfully managing the flow of meetings, promoting individual contributions and encouraging creativity
• Minimise behaviours that can lead to unproductive meeting routines and time-wasting
• Establish the best structure for conducting meetings and the tools available to achieve the meeting outcomes.

Guidance notes and will be provided to support this workshop and certificates of attendance are awarded after the workshop.