Conducting Meetings

Why Conducting Meetings training? Well-managed meetings save time, have clear objectives and outcomes allowing you and your organisation to be more effective. However, valuable time, effort and energy is frequently lost through poorly conducted and organised meetings.  Whether an informal weekly team meeting or a formal AGM, good meetings need careful preparation, clear objectives and an efficient chair.  Conducting meetings is a skill that involves excellent communication and organisational skills, understanding and management of group dynamics and an ability to control challenging situations.

Communicaid’s Conducting Meetings courses will help you to develop and practise the necessary skills to become a more effective and efficient Meeting Chair.

A Communicaid Conducting Meetings course will provide you with:

- Improved confidence when Conducting a meeting

- More efficient use of time for you and your organisation through more effective Conducting of meetings

- Ideas and strategies for dealing with difficult people when Conducting meetings

- Enhanced communication skills for a more successful performance at meetings

Communicaid Conducting Meetings courses will be of benefit to you if:

- You chair external or internal meetings regularly

- You would like to enhance your performance when Conducting meetings

- You would like to improve your communication skills when Conducting meetings

Conducting Meetings courses are designed to meet your personal/organisational requirements and existing skills set.   A Conducting Meetings course includes:

- Planning and preparing for meetings

- Purpose and perception of meetings

- Practical considerations involved in Conducting meetings

- Role and skills required of the Chair

- Effective communication skills for Conducting meetings

- Managing participation and managing conflict when Conducting meetings

- Gaining consensus, agreement and clear outcomes through effective Conducting of meetings

Conducting Meetings courses are available seven days a week, 365 days a year, either at one of our training centres in London, Paris, Frankfurt and New York or at your offices in any location worldwide.  We usually recommend a one or two day course but can also offer a more flexible format to suit your schedule.

Suitably tailored materials will be used throughout your course and your trainer will provide case studies and role plays to suit your own context.

The most appropriate training format, content and approach for your Conducting Meetings course will be discussed during your diagnostic consultancy (please click here to read more about our approach).

Conducting Meeting Course Trainer

Your Conducting Meetings trainer will be assigned to you following the results of your diagnostic consultancy according to your objectives and areas of focus. Detailed below is a sample profile of one of our Conducting Meetings trainers.

JB

JB spent the first five years of his career as a Lloyd’s insurance broker for Lowndes Lambert.  He then retrained as an actor and has since made numerous TV, film and theatre appearances.  In tandem with his acting career, he has run his own presentation skills consultancy training senior executives from organisations including Texaco, American Airlines and Ford.  

In 2000, JB relocated to Budapest where he co-founded a theatre company and continued to develop his training experience.  He ran a large number of group and individualised programmes for Hungarians and other foreign nationals working for organisations such as KPMG, IBM and GE.  He returned to London in 2005 and now devotes most of his time to corporate training.  He has delivered a variety of communication skills training to a number of Communicaid clients including Deutsche Bank, the Office of Fair Trading and Shell.