Description
Practical tools to design and lead effective meetings
Load up on tools, templates and best practices to lead meetings with clear purpose and great outcomes.
Meetings That Work
Design and Facilitate Effective Meetings
Get more from meetings than you ever thought possible with best practices from professional facilitators. Turn meetings into “events” that people want to attend, increase participation and get the best input and results from everyone.
Meetings That Work is for anyone who leads or attends lots of meetings and will provide you with professional tips, templates and practical tools to increase commitment to action, and handle difficult or controversial items.
This course has been endorsed by the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) as part of the ToP Facilitation Essentials program to lead you to become a Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF). MTW alone covers many of the competencies required by the IAF.
Benefits
Design and run great meetings
- Create engaging agendas
- Construct meaningful processes
- Increase group participation and productivity
- Make group decision making more effective
Create a Participatory Environment
- Use diversity to make everything interesting
- Deal with difficult situations
- Get the very best results
- Develop teamwork and follow-through
Gain Confidence as a Facilitative Leader
- Learn best practice tools and techniques
- Enhance meaningful participation
- Communicate more effectively in groups
Day One
Participation and involvement
- Great meetings
- Participation at its best
- Levels of involvement in decision making
- Facilitating brainstorming
Planning Agenda
- Elements of dialogue
- Asking questions
- Planning for agenda items in meetings
- Creating facilitation plans for agenda items
Day Two
Designing meetings and events
- Keys to healthy communication
- Preparing for meetings
- Creating meeting designs
- Meeting planning
Facilitating Meetings
- Stages in the group’s journey
- Facilitator’s role
- Dealing with difficult situations
- Personal action planning
This course is for:
- Organizational leaders and managers responsible for strategic and operational planning meetings.
- Project managers responsible for guiding a whole project cycle.
- Team leaders responsible for organizational operations and project implementation.
- Community leaders responsible for planning and implementing action campaigns.
- Government officials responsible for program development, project implementation and policy formation.
- Facilitators responsible for enabling group productivity.
Plan, prepare for and facilitate productive meetings with best professional tools and approaches available.
- Dialogue approach
- Ladder of participation
- Effective flipcharting
- Product oriented agenda design
Play the role of meeting facilitator more effectively and get results that generate confidence and motivation in the whole team. Turn meetings into events.
- Process and its elements
- Tips for effective communication
- Event design and orchestration
- STEPS model
Throughout the course, there are valuable tools, contexts and guidelines that will deepen your capacities as a leader, facilitator and coach.
- 72 facilitation tools
- Seven intelligences
- Working with difficult behaviours.
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