How to Run Effective Meetings
In this course, you will discover how to plan, lead, and participate in formal or informal meetings and how to make them more productive and successful. You will learn how to save time and resources by ensuring that meetings support business needs.
What you'll learn
Having effective meetings is essential for any businesses. In this course, How to Run Effective Meetings, you will discover how to plan, lead, and participate in formal or informal meetings. First, you will understand how to make meetings more productive and successful. Then, you will learn how to save time and resources by ensuring that meetings support business needs. Finally, you will comprehend how to identify the best reasons for holding meetings, prepare for meetings more thoroughly, draw up action-cantered agendas, apply the skills of chairing, leading, facilitating, and participating. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of structuring and managing conversations in meetings for maximum effectiveness.
Table of contents
- Module Overview 1m
- Getting Started 1m
- Setting Meeting Ground Rules 2m
- Facilitation 6m
- Facilitation Tips 1m
- Questioning Skills and Techniques 8m
- Using Questioning Techniques 2m
- Listening 2m
- Barriers to Listening 2m
- Improving Your Listening Skills 1m
- Dealing with Different People 4m
- Handling Disorder in a Meeting 1m
- Problems for Minute Takers 2m
- Taking Minutes 4m
About the author
Stephen Haunts is an experienced Software Developer and Leader who has worked across multiple business domains including Computer Games, Finance, and Healthcare Retail and Distribution. Stephen has worked in languages ranging from Assembler, various forms of BASIC, to C and C++, and then finding his love of C# and .NET. Stephen also runs a Software Development and Leadership blog called {Coding in the Trenches} which can be read at http://www.stephenhaunts.com . Stephen also runs a small music ... more