Running Effective Meetings
Outline
Who in business hasn't experienced the frustration of wasting valuable time in ineffective meetings? And who hasn't uttered the phrase "Why are we having another meeting?" But whilst ineffective
meetings gobble up valuable time and decrease team productivity, effective meetings can greatly contribute to a team's success - and team success, in turn, will contribute to the overall success of an
organisation.
Meetings are a tool. Used correctly, they can improve your productivity - just like other tools do. And, as with other tools, there are certain procedures and techniques you can use to maximise effectiveness.
EAs and PAs not only participate in a lot of meetings but more and more they are organising meetings for the management team or even facilitating these for their own or other's projects. So like other
managers in business, EAs need to learn how to make the meetings they are involved in valuable and productive so they no longer have meetings for meetings sake.
Who Should Attend
This course will be valuable for any EA who wants to make the meetings they are involved in more productive, the events they organise more productive or who would like to instil a new culture of
meetings within their organisations. Let's do away with meetings for meetings sake - after all, time is our most precious commodity.
Course Objectives
By the end of this highly interactive program, you will be able to:
- Plan effective meetings with clear objectives
- Create meeting blueprints
- Assign appropriate roles for every meeting participant
- Implement SMART criteria in meeting planning
- Measure and report on meeting outcomes
- Evaluate alternatives to having a meeting
Course Content
- Understanding team meeting roles and responsibilities - meeting leader, facilitator, recorder and participant
- Creating a meeting responsibility checklist for before, during and after the meeting
- Guidelines for each role when preparing for a meeting
- Creating a ‘Blueprint' for meeting agendas
- Understanding why every meeting objective must fit within the SMART criteria
- Evaluating meeting outcomes versus objectives
- Meaningful reporting
- Building a consideration of alternatives into your meetings' planning process.
Your Workshop Presenter
Katrena Friel
Principal Consultant, EAN Training Academy
Katrena Friel is one of the brightest minds in training, coaching and corporate consulting today.
She incorporates three key aspects being life-transforming skills, training and professional development programs as well as professional coaching and mentoring. She specialises in personal development. Her sound knowledge of business, plus her ability to put ideas into action through planning, training and development ensures her client's success.
For over 20 years, she has contributed to the success of thousands of companies in most industries, consulted to hundreds of entrepreneurs and guided thousands of individuals - inspiring them to their next level of development. She holds formal qualifications in Business, Management, Advertising, PR and Marketing and is a Master Practitioner and Train the Trainer of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Progamming).
Katrena's life purpose is to cultivate solutions that develop creativity, leadership and communication skills for a leap frog effect in people's lives.
Duration
Three Hour Workshop
Price
EAN Members: $445.00 + GST
EAN Associate Members & Non-Members: $595.00 + GST
Please contact Katrena Friel at BSI Learning on 02 9215 0196 to discuss your program needs.