Effective Meeting Management and Facilitation

Too many meetings? Endless discussion? Constant lack of agreement? With the growing number of virtual meetings, making real progress is even more challenging. Facilitating consensus across a group of professionals is a critical requirement to any project’s success.

According to a study published in the European Journal of Work & Organization Psychology, ineffective meetings in the U.S. cost businesses up to $37 billion per year. Reducing the number of meetings and increasing the productivity of meetings can free up strategic resources to increase innovation and profits.

In this program, you will learn techniques and tools to effectively run information-gathering sessions, detect and address hidden agendas, gain team alignment, and drive decision making whether in person or in a virtual meeting environment. You will also learn how to avoid common pitfalls, address difficult meeting participants, and minimize technical meeting challenges.

• Decrease the number of ineffective meetings
• Reduce the time it takes to capture project needs and requirements
• Achieve group consensus quicker
• Better identify assumed or unspoken needs and requirements
• Learn techniques for handling participants that disrupt, hijack, or take groups off target in meetings
• Empower groups to be accountable and responsible for agreed upon activities
• Develop focus and excitement for new or ongoing initiatives
• Better understand the different techniques needed for one-to-one, small group, and large group environments

• Project managers
• Technical/team leads
• Business analysts
• General managers
• Department heads