Leading Productive (In-Person or Online) Team Meetings

Why is this course important?

Of all the tasks managers and team leaders need to do well and get right, hosting an in-person, hybrid, or virtual (MS Team or Zoom) meeting is up there when it comes to one of the important and most challenging management tasks.

Why? Well, first of all, there’s the challenge of scheduling everyone, especially when some people are in different locations or states (even countries). Secondly, because your meetings may be considered virtual or hybrid meetings, it’s important to maintain a high level of participation from everyone during each meeting.

Leading Productive (In-Person or Online) Team Meetings will improve the way you chair and lead both online, hybrid as well as in-person team meetings. You’ll learn techniques to improve how you manage everyone’s participation, make important decisions and overcome hurdles and frustrations, so your meeting times go from boring to soaring.

Course Objectives

This course will increase your ability to:

• Use techniques for uniting, focusing, and mobilising people in a meeting.
• Learn facilitation skills for regular and difficult people.
• The best way to increase participation from everyone, whether in the same room as you or working remotely.
• Understand different ways to involve your attendees and get them working together.
• How to set and work with your agenda so all important topics are discussed and dealt with.

Just Some of What You Will Learn

• Identify the skills and approaches needed for effective chairing in-person, hybrid or online meetings.
• Setting and using ground rules and developing proper “agreed” meeting protocols.
• Creating the perfect agenda so that the most important topics are discussed and addressed.
• The right way to chair effectively using specific meeting techniques.
• How to create an environment that encourages participation by everyone.
• Using techniques to encourage quieter meeting members to offer their input.
• How to manage interrupting or over-talkative participants.
• Managing disruption or conflict confidently.