Meeting Facilitation

Course Number:  031-GO
Recommended Duration:  ½ Day or 1 Day

Intended Audience
Individuals who are responsible for running and or facilitating meetings and want to improve their meetings effectiveness.

Course Overview
This course helps participants to facilitate meetings and or groups to achieve maximum results. They will examine how to prepare for, conduct, and follow up a meeting, energize the group, generate involvement in the agenda and get the group focused on the business of the meeting.

Objectives
As a result of taking this course, you will learn to:

• Effectively plan for, conduct, and follow up business meetings
• Encourage balanced participation
• Handle difficult participants

Prerequisites:  None

Topics

• Defining a facilitator/meeting leader

• Planning for meetings

• Facilitating meetings

• Facilitator and meeting leader techniques

• Meeting guidelines

• Handling disruptive meeting attendees

• Effective follow-up

• Communication and implementation

• Evaluating meetings for improved results

• Managing stages of group development

• Understanding group leadership styles

• Skill practice and action planning