Meetings That Work
Design and Facilitate Effective Meetings
Pre-Requisite: None
Get more from meetings than you ever thought possible with best practices from professional facilitators. Turn meetings into "events" that people want to attend, increase participation and get the best input and results from everyone. Meetings That Works is for anyone who leads or attends lots of meetings and will provide you with professional tips, templates and practical tools to increase commitment to action, and handle difficult or controversial items.
This course has been endorsed by the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) as part of the Professional Facilitator Program to lead you to become a Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF). MTW alone covers many of the competencies required by the IAF.
Who is it For?
- Organizational leaders and managers responsible for strategic and operational planning meetings.
- Project managers responsible for guiding a whole project cycle.
- Team leaders responsible for organizational operations and project implementation.
- Community leaders responsible for planning and implementing action campaigns.
- Government officials responsible for program development, project implementation and policy formation.
- Facilitators responsible for enabling group productivity.
Benefits
Design and Run Great Meetings
- Create engaging agendas
- Construct meaningful processes
- Increase group participation and productivity
- Make group decision making more effective
Create a Participatory Environment
- Use diversity to make everything interesting
- Deal with difficult situations
- Get the very best results
- Develop teamwork and follow-through
Gain Confidence as a Facilitative Leader
- Learn best practice tools and techniques
- Enhance meaningful participation
- Communicate more effectively in groups
Key Methods Taught
Plan, prepare for and facilitate productive meetings with best professional tools and approaches available.
- Dialogue approach
- Ladder of participation
- Effective flip charting
- Product oriented agenda design
Play the role of meeting facilitator more effectively and get results that generate confidence and motivation in the whole team. Turn meetings into events.
Process and its elements
- Tips for effective communication
- Event design and orchestration
- STEPS model
Throughout the course, there are valuable tools, contexts and guidelines that will deepen your capabilities as a leader, facilitator and coach.
- 72 facilitation tools
- Seven intelligences
- Working with difficult behaviors
Learn practical tools to design and lead effective meetings
Agenda
Day One
Participation and Involvement
- Great meetings
- Participation at its best
- Levels of involvement in decision making
- Facilitating brainstorming
Planning Agenda
- Elements of dialogue
- Asking questions
- Planning for agenda items in meetings
- Creating facilitation plans for agenda items
Day Two
Designing Meetings and Events
- Keys to healthy communication
- Preparing for meetings
- Creating meetings designs
- Meeting planning
Facilitating Meetings
- Stages in the group's journey
- Facilitator's role
- Dealing with difficult situations
- Personal action planning
When is this course given
To know when the next Meetings that Work course will be given, please refer to our courses schedule.
Price
Number of Participants: 24
Course Period: 2 days (9:00-17:00)
Price: ¥50,000 (¥30,000/day in case of booking only one day)
Discount: 10% for Government officers, 20% for NPO officers, 40% for University students