Going to a Meeting: Constructive and Effective Participation

Introduction

UK believe that most of their work meetings are unnecessary or unproductive [1]. Poorly planned, badly run meetings waste valuable working hours and represent an unnecessary financial burden to any business.

Going to a Meeting: Constructive and Effective Participation introduces new techniques to help staff get more out of meetings. The course explores the importance of preparation, keeping contributions short and to the point and staying calm and courteous. Staff will also learn how to deal with common 'meeting wreckers' - from the waffler to the assassin, from the turf warrior to the interrupter. By the time they've completed the course, they will have new skills in place to help them play a more effective role in business meetings.

This course is structured around a series of engaging video clips featuring John Cleese. Key messages are delivered with simplicity and impact, making learning more memorable.

[1]: Robert Walters Recruitment Consultancy, September 2006

Who is the course for?

Going to a Meeting: Constructive and Effective Participation is suitable for anyone who attends meetings, but is unsure of how to make an effective contribution or how to deal with difficult situations and awkward colleagues.

This course is appropriate to any business sector, there are no formal entry requirements and employees do not require any prior experience.

What will you get from this course?

When you have completed this course you will be able to:

• recall the three golden rules of meetings: do your homework, keep the meeting short, keep it cool and courteous
• take a positive attitude towards objections and be prepared to handle them
• display techniques for restoring calm to a meeting
• identify different types of destructive behaviours and use appropriate tactics to handle them

Course features

Famous faces including John Cleese will show you how to and how not to behave in a meeting. A self-important manager learns, by trial and error, the three golden rules of professional and effective meetings. The course goes on to demonstrate a range of skills and tactics to combat negative meeting behaviours such as waffling, interrupting and argumentative behaviour.

Set in everyday surroundings, well-known performers act out realistic situations in a light hearted and entertaining way that will help you recognise some common errors and understand how to correct them. The familiar settings and witty role play will help you to apply the material to your own workplace.

Before you begin the course, you'll take a short test to help identify any knowledge gaps. As you work through the course, you'll be presented with simple exercises to check your learning. At the end there is a 15 question quiz to help sum up what you have learned.

You can start the course straight away and access it at any time, providing you have the use of a computer with an internet connection. The course is available for six months from the date first accessed.

Course Code

104198BT036

Other courses you might be interested in

Making Time: Priorities, People and Procedures at Work, Time Management, Meetings, Bloody Meetings: Making Meetings More Productive, More Bloody Meetings: The People Side of Meetings

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