Duration: One Day
Trainer: Irish Times Training
Target Audience:
This programme is designed for individuals who wish to develop a more productive chairing style. Participants will be given the tools to enable them achieve optimal outcomes from meetings.
Course Aim:
- Make better decisions in meetings
- Achieve greater participation
- Support trusted communication channels and enhance motivation by managing the meeting process effectively
Course Objectives:
Participants will learn how to:
- Use communication techniques to faciliatate productive discussion
- Manage challenging people and situations more constructively
- Prepare tailored, realistic agendas
- Step confidently through the meeting process to decisions and responsibilities
- Achieve greater consensus and support positive dissent
- Devise a charter of expectations for your committee
Course Content:
- Clarifying the chairperson's role before, during and after meetings
- Preparing and drafting effective agendas
- Using listening and questioning techniques to enhance discussions
- Sequencing the steps to agreed decisions
- Managing challenging people and situations
- Developing a charter of expectations for meetings