"POWER MEETINGS!™"

Workshop Outline ...

OVERVIEW

Today's managers and professionals are spending more and more time in meetings. According to recent surveys, most managers spend at least 25% of their working hours in meetings. Unfortunately these same surveys show that most meetings held today are ineffective. The average meeting attendee wastes the equivalent of 32 person days per year due to ineffective meetings.

The reason for this waste is simply due to a lack of meeting skills. Most managers and professionals receive little or no training in managing or attending meetings and in making decisions in groups. This workshop is designed to provide managers, supervisors and employees with the critical skills necessary to turn their ineffective meetings into Power Meetings™.

PURPOSE

The purpose of this workshop is to provide meeting leaders and participants with the skills and the tools to make their meetings more productive.

PROCESS

Participants attend a four-hour workshop that provides them with the knowledge and skills in proven principles and techniques for meeting planning and decision making. Participants then practice these skills in practical exercises and make specific action plans for improving the meetings they attend on the job.

BENEFITS

By the end of this workshop participants will be able to:

• Understand the roles that meeting leaders, group members and staff can play in effectively planning, preparing for and participating in meetings

• Contribute to meeting effectiveness regardless of their role in the meeting

• Understand and apply several useful skills for effective meetings

• Identify practices which make their meetings productive or unproductive

• Identify specific steps they can take to improve their meetings

OUTLINE

Module I:	Introduction and Overview	Module II:	Self-Assessment
Module III:	Make Meetings Succeed	Module IV:	Application Exercises
	1) Steps to Effective Meetings
	2) Roles and Responsibilities	Module V:	Action Planning
	3) Meeting Types
	4) Group Decision Making

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