Meetings Over Easy
How to have better, shorter, more productive meetings
(Formerly professional meeting skills)

October 29th, 2008 - CANCELLED
9am-12pm

Are you frustrated by mismanaged, tedious, and off-track meetings that don't accomplish anything?

Well-run meetings can produce the results organizations need by helping people make decisions, respond quickly to customers, and work together more effectively. This program is a step-by-step blueprint of how to plan, organize, and conduct effective meetings.

Topics covered include:

• Planning: what to do before the meeting
• Keeping the group focused on task
• Creating structures to improve meeting productivity
• understanding communication and personality styles and how groups work together to accomplish the task
• Improving facilitation skills including dealing with counterproductive behaviors that take meetings off-track
• concluding the meeting so that follow-up actions will be carried out

After this engaging and practical class, you'll go away knowing exactly what you can do as a meeting leader-and attendee-to avoid the pitfalls that can derail a meeting.