This workshop is designed for those running and/or attending meetings. It highlights the aspects of meetings that can be dealt with in order to increase efficiency and effectiveness. This interactive workshop will combine learning about preparation, protocols, and rules with aspects of delivery, confidence, and structure for effective presentation of proposals and ideas. It highlights the things that meeting participants and leaders can do to make the experience more efficient. Self-assessment checklists will be introduced during the workshop.
Aim
To give participants an understanding of good meeting procedures, equipping them with the strategies and techniques to make meetings more efficient and effective.
Topics include:
- Developing chairing skills
- Establishing the purpose of your meeting
- Preparation, rules, and protocols
- Presenting and communicating at a meeting
- Identifying potential conflict and the ways to contain it
- Contributing to an effective meeting
- Minute taking and the duties of the secretary/minute secretary