Managing Meetings

Effective meetings leave you feeling energised and give a sense of accomplishment. Meetings that are managed appropriately have clear direction and allow all participants to equally share throughout the meeting duration. This qualification provides you with an understanding that is central to effective meeting management; enabling you to demonstrate skills required to achieve meeting objectives, good time-management, develop agendas, evaluate and successful closing of the meeting.

Course Content

• Identify the type, purpose, objectives, and background to a meeting
• Identify those individuals expected, and those required to attend a meeting
• Prepare for any formal procedures that apply to a meeting
• Describe ways of minimising likely problems in a meeting
• Take action to ensure that meeting documentation is prepared correctly and distributed to the agreed people within the agreed timescale
• Follow business conventions in the conduct of a meeting
• Facilitate meetings so that everyone is involved and the optimum possible consensus is achieved
• Manage the agenda within the timescale of the meeting
• Summarise the agreed actions, allocated responsibilities, timescales and any future arrangements
• Take action to ensure that accurate records of a meeting are produced and distributed in the agreed format and timescale
• Take action to ensure that post- meeting actions are completed
• Evaluate the effectiveness of a meeting and identify points for future improvement

Employees Benefits

• Take action to ensure that accurate records of a meeting are produced and distributed in the agreed format and timescale
• Take action to ensure that post- meeting actions are completed
• Summarise the agreed actions, allocated responsibilities, timescales and any future arrangements

Employers Benefits

• Manage the agenda within the timescale of the meeting
• Identify the type, purpose, objectives, and background to a meeting
• Follow business conventions in the conduct of a meeting
• Prepare for any formal procedures that apply to a meeting