WorkingSm@rt Meetings

Get your meetings on time, on track, on purpose. In this workshop you learn how to plan, organize and run successful meetings, and how to maximize your productivity in the meetings you are required to attend. By adopting a business-planning approach you increase the effectiveness of your meetings and save valuable time.

This hybrid edition incorporates the latest research on meetings and covers in-person, virtual and hybrid formats, with structured activities and examples that let participants practise new behaviours during the session.

What we cover

• Introduction Meeting frustrations, the challenges organizations face in conducting effective meetings, and the solutions that make an organization WorkingSm@rt in Meetings.
• Unit 1: Pre-Meeting Requirements The essential steps for effective preparation, as chairperson or participant, including creating an agenda that leads to productive outcomes.
• Unit 2: During-Meeting Requirements Executing well-planned meetings so they become an efficient communication tool that ensures alignment, promotes a bias for action and enhances teamwork.
• Unit 3: Post-Meeting Actions Best practices for translating meeting outcomes into actionable items, and effective follow-up so tasks are completed on time.
• Unit 4: Your Solutions and Action Plan Identify solutions to your own frustrations and create your Campaign for WorkingSm@rt in Meetings: a concise action plan to improve meeting efficiency.

What you will leave able to do

• Apply a proven planning process to meetings
• Design an effective agenda to increase accountability
• Run a meeting with a bias for action
• Know precisely how to prepare to attend a meeting
• Keep a meeting on track and avoid the common pitfalls that create meeting frustrations
• Use a quick, effective process for evaluating meetings
• Apply virtual and hybrid meeting best practices

Every session is customized to your organization's needs. The final agenda is confirmed with your facilitator before delivery.