Mastering the Meeting
Planning and leading focused, inclusive, outcome-driven meetings.
Course Description
This course equips participants with the practical skills needed to plan and lead meetings that are focused, inclusive, and outcome-driven. Through real-world examples and tools, learners gain techniques for increasing engagement, clarifying decisions, and turning meetings into strategic leadership tools.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this program, participants will be able to:
- Plan and lead focused, inclusive meetings
- Increase engagement; clarify decisions and outcomes
Course Outline
- Opening & objectives
- The cost of poor meetings and when not to meet
- Designing focused agendas & clear outcomes
- Inclusive facilitation & driving engagement
- Clarifying decisions and follow-through
- Meeting-redesign commitments
Preparation Steps
- Bring a recurring meeting you own to redesign
- Reflect on what makes your meetings effective or not
- Gather brief input from regular attendees
Assessment Method
The assessment of a participant’s progress will be a combination of preparation assignments, classroom participation, and review of concepts during in-class activities as well as follow-up meetings with managers and peers to discuss examples of successful use of the tools provided in this course.
Course Customization Options
This program can be customized for the specific needs of clients through offering only some vs. all of the course modules, incorporation or alignment to client specific organizational messages (values, business processes etc), modifying the workshop delivery schedule and the addition of business relevant action learning projects.
Sustainment & Post-Work
- Redesign one recurring meeting within 2 weeks (purpose, agenda, roles, outcomes)
- Collect attendee feedback
- Adopt a decision/action-capture habit
- 30-day review of meeting quality; share improvements with the team.
