Facilitate Better Meetings
Learn how to improve your meeting facilitation skills, introduce ground rules in a respectful way to set a positive tone for your meetings and encourage constructive participation.
Duration
Facilitate Better Meetings is a 3.5-hour program. 45 mins of pre-workshop learning is required (includes videos and a brief comprehension quiz).
Options
Facilitate Better Meetings is facilitated as an in-person or virtual session.
Workbook
Virtual sessions – participants will receive a comprehensive workshop manual (PDF) a few days before the workshop begins.
In-person sessions – participants will receive a comprehensive paper workshop manual on the day of the in-person workshop.
Facilitate Better Meetings
Learn how to improve your meeting facilitation skills, introduce ground rules in a respectful way to set a positive tone for your meetings and encourage constructive participation.
Make your meetings more productive
Facilitate Better Meetings is a practical program that will help you improve your meeting facilitation skills.
You will be working on your own and in small groups. Although there are no role plays, you will participate in actual meetings and will be encouraged to emphasize realistic behaviours that occur in your meetings.
Who is this program for?
Meeting facilitators, chairs and co-chairs of informal meetings.
Purpose
The purpose of this program is to help you: incorporate practices that will make your meetings more successful, include five essential meeting facilitation skills in your meetings.
Facilitate Better Meetings will build incrementally on what you do well already. You’ll be challenged to try new ideas and techniques. The program includes practical meetings assignments, templates and tools.
We will explore
- The Dynamic or Decay Meetings model
- The S-curve of meetings
- The role of the facilitator, chair and co-chairs
- Questions to ask to keep your meetings on track
- How to address behaviours that hinder progress
- Five essential meeting facilitation skills
- How to identify and adapt to various personalities
- How to introduce ground rules in a respectful way
- The importance of being a role model and sensemaker
Duration—in-person or virtual classroom
Available as a 3.5-hour program.
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