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Conducting Effective Meetings

This 1-day session will provide you with the skills you need to plan, conduct, and manage effective meetings face-to-face or virtually.

You'll learn how to:

  • Plan and coordinate the logistics of a meeting
  • Create an effective outline and agenda
  • Select the right speakers for an event
  • Introduce speakers and politely cut them off
  • Deliver feedback
  • Facilitate group discussions
  • Keep meetings on track
  • Handle Q & A
  • Manage difficult participants
  • Track and evaluate meetings for maximum success

Live practice will allow you to receive peer feedback and measure your strengths and weaknesses.

This experience will enable you to:

  • Feel more confident when facilitating meetings
  • Project a polished professional image
  • Create successful outcomes for meetings
  • Know when to call a meeting and which format to use
  • Manage difficult people, groups, and situations

Audience: Anyone who manages or facilitates meetings.

Format: 1-day seminar for 7 people. Participants will conduct a meeting and receive peer and instructor feedback.

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Your presentation skills program has made such a difference over the past three years since you began working with us. The participants rave about your program. The high quality of your training is evident and the participants appreciate your high energy and positive approach. As you know, you have a sterling reputation with our people which is why you have been called upon to do media training for our players, Bob Lanier, Rolando Blackman, and Ruthie Bolton-Holyfield...

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