Overview

• What percentage of time do you spend in meetings and how productive are they?
• Do people multi-task during meetings or talk without any clear outcomes or follow-up?
• Even when there are clear expectations that interest you, do you find it hard to engage due to long monologues or the lack of structure?

In most organisations, ineffective meetings are a source of waste and frustration. To stay competitive, these internal inefficiencies need to be drastically reduced to generate greater productivity. To directly improve your organisational performance, focus should be given to increasing the effectiveness, efficiency and level of engagement in meetings.

Leader Conference

To inform and engage Leaders:

• Defined meeting principles
• Agreed core behaviour and feedback mechanisms
• Confirmed the structure of tactical meetings
• Agreed the role and responsibility of the facilitator
• Set criteria for selecting facilitators
• Clarified the process for selection
• Practiced the skill of contracting

Facilitator Preparation

To provide facilitators with the skills to transform meetings:

• Understood the steps involved in planning successful meetings
• Developed the skill of contracting & practiced this together with the P.O.S.T. philosophy
• Generated a toolkit of options and techniques to make meetings and workshops more engaging
• Practiced facilitation to develop competence and confidence
• Recognised how to deal with typical scenarios that adversely impact on meeting success