This 1 or 2-day meetings skills training course provides an opportunity for participants to recover time often wasted in nonproductive meetings. Participants will identify the roles of a facilitator/leader, understand group dynamics, determine efficient methods of information exchange, practice techniques for expressing and evaluating ideas in a group setting, and learn techniques for coping with difficult meeting participants.

• Eliminate common timewasters in meetings
• Identify and practice eight roles as a meeting leader
• Prepare an efficient agenda to keep meeting discussions focused
• Facilitate seven group processes for improved interaction
• Control group dynamics with difficult meeting “personalities”
• Present ideas persuasively as a meeting participant
• Identify 10 techniques for efficient exchange of information—without a meeting

Anyone who frequently leads or participates in meetings

Up to 20 participants