About the Workshop

This seminar enhances your skill as a meeting leader and as an active meeting participant. Through lectures and professional presentations, effective meeting leader/participant behaviors are demonstrated. Small group practice sessions will help you perfect the techniques you will learn.

Objectives:

• Know when to hold (or not hold) meetings
• Define clear outcomes
• Develop an agenda to achieve results
• Keep the meeting focused
• Handle difficult behavior
• Solve problems and identify opportunities

Topics:

• The importance of meetings
• Know when to hold them and when to fold them
• Defining the outcome
• Setting the agenda – the reason for the meeting
• Keeping the meeting on track
• Coping with conflict
• Recognizing solutions
• After the meeting – follow-up activities

 

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