Why attend Facilitating Meetings? Business meetings have increasingly become an integral part of our working lives. Well-managed meetings are effective with clear objectives and outcomes allowing you and your organisation to be more efficient. However, valuable time, effort and energy are frequently lost through poorly conducted and organised meetings. It can be particularly challenging when asked to facilitate meetings where you are one of the more junior members of staff or where you need to influence a range of external stakeholders. Careful preparation and clear objectives together with excellent communication and facilitation skills make you much more likely to achieve the outcomes you require.
Communicaid’s public communication skills course, Facilitating Meetings, will increase your awareness of your own and others’ communication style and will provide you with skills and strategies to enable you to facilitate your meetings more successfully.
Benefits
Communicaid’s Facilitating Meetings courses will provide you with:
- Greater confidence when facilitating meetings
- Better use of time for you and your organisation through more effective facilitation of meetings
- Strategies for coping with difficult people when facilitating meetings
- Enhanced communication and facilitation skills for a more successful performance at meetings
Who should attend?
A Communicaid Facilitating Meetings course will be of benefit to you if you:
- Already or will soon regularly lead of facilitate external or internal meetings
- Are required to influence change in attitudes or behaviours through meetings
- Lead meetings attended by more senior colleagues or important stakeholders
- Would like to enhance your communication and facilitation skills for a more effective performance at meetings
Course Content
Facilitating Meetings includes:
- Planning and preparation for successful meetings
- Structuring your meeting
- Understanding your communication style and its impact on others
- Breaking the ice and building rapport
- Techniques for more effective communication and encouraging participation: active listening, questioning and using humour
- Managing dominant or challenging participants
- Gaining consensus and clear outcomes
Facilitating Meetings Course Trainer
Your Facilitating 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 the profile of a member of our communication skills team:
GR
GR is a highly experienced training and coaching practitioner with a commercial background in sales and marketing within the insurance sector. She has a keen interest in personal development and change management and delivers a wide range of culture and communication training programmes including sales and influencing, performance management, interpersonal skills, team building and negotiation skills.
Her career with the General Accident Group spanned nearly twenty years culminating with her position as IFA Sales Manager. This involved managing a team of 80 staff as well as delivering results in line with company strategy after the merger of two separate organisations. During her career, she was involved with numerous high level negotiations and change management transitions and brings a wealth of hands on experience to her training.
GR has been a freelance trainer since 1999 and is also a regular speaker at the Chartered Insurance Institute. She has delivered training programmes for key Communicaid clients including MBDA and the Government Offices for the Regions. |
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