Effective (and Enjoyable) Meetings
EFFECTIVE, PRODUCTIVE (AND EVEN ENJOYABLE) MEETINGS
“If you had to identify, in one word, the reason the human race has not achieved and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.’ ”
-Humorist, Dave Barry
Effective meetings are vital for a healthy and thriving organization, and believe it or not, it is possible to run GREAT (and enjoyable) meetings!
Meetings are a microcosm of your organizational culture. And this is good news, because by improving meetings you can in many ways reengineer your organization’s culture. When you make sustainable improvements in how meetings are run (including in areas such as decision-making practices, authenticity, power differentials, creativity, psychological safety, trust, reliability, accountability and more), you actually improve your overall organizational culture.
One of the keys, of course, to great meetings is the skill level of the people in your organization who facilitate meetings. Facilitating a meeting well is an art. You need to be able to air traffic control the meeting, be engaging, manage people’s airtime, follow the agenda, ensure effective decision-making, and much more.
In this workshop, attendees will learn how to:
Plan and prepare for excellent meetings
facilitate artfully and effectively
Maintain engagement, participation, and positive energy
build in commitment and accountability
use a tried-and-true decision-making model for meetings
Create psychological safety so that meetings are creative, productive and (dare we say) fun
And let’s not forget remote and hybrid meetings! You will not only learn how to hold effective virtual meetings, but how to make them downright enjoyable for everyone involved.