Planning and Facilitating Effective Business Meetings

This training workshop will equip participants with the knowledge to plan, prepare for, participate in, and chair productive meetings. Through interactive activities and group discussion, participants will learn how to utilize meeting time more effectively, determine pre and post meeting deliverables, and identify the roles and responsibilities of the meeting owner and attendees.  Learners will also be provided with practical tools for ensuring the effectiveness of meetings including templates for agendas, action reports and minutes of meetings.

Who Should Attend This Course?

  • Anyone regularly involved in business meetings, planning and processes – all levels

What This Course Covers?

  • Determining causes and characteristics of both good and bad meetings
  • Planning and preparing a meeting agenda that will help to achieve a positive outcome
  • Understanding roles and responsibilities for the meeting host, attendees, and minute taker
  • Keeping attendees engaged and involved, including those attending the meeting by phone
  • Dealing with distractions and secondary conversations in a decisive, non-confrontational manner
  • Staying on schedule and minimizing digressions to make sure the meeting ends on time
  • Creating conclusions and action items from the meeting
  • Developing a follow through plan that ensures the goals of the meeting are achieved thereafter

 How long is this course?

A half-day Session (4 hours total)

How to Register

All classes are available to be scheduled as private sessions for your firm with some classes being offered on an open to the public basis. To see if this class is currently being offered, please visit our events calendar.

Registration Cost

 Contact OperationsInc for pricing information.

Have questions? We’re here to help. Reach out to Heather Trotta, Director of Training and Development Services, at 203-322-0538 or email us at Training@OperationsInc.com.

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