Business Skills Professional Effectiveness Business Meetings
If you and your co-workers feel like meetings are the bane of your existence, it's up to you as a leader to change them into productive and valuable activities. Meetings are important and necessary to accomplishing work and, when planned and executed effectively, can promote productivity, learning, involvement, and relationships. Preparing for and implementing meetings involves following some well-known principles such as having an agenda and staying on track. But leading meetings also requires navigating the tougher challenges of engaging participants, orchestrating discussions, managing conflict, and getting agreement to action. This program is designed to help you recognize the challenges and benefits of having effective meetings, prepare yourself and your participants for a positive meeting experience, facilitate people and process issues to achieve meeting objectives, and conclude meetings on time and with appropriate action and evaluation.
