More Bloody Meetings: The People Side of Meetings

Introduction

Business meetings are the ideal opportunity for colleagues to share information, exchange ideas and contribute to decisions. But unless the chair has effective people management skills, even the most crucial meeting can turn into a frustrating, conflict-ridden, unproductive waste of time!

This course has been designed to help businesses manage behaviour in meetings and ensure they are as productive and effective as possible.

More Bloody Meetings: The People Side of Meetings is a useful introduction to the skills needed to chair a successful meeting.  The course focuses on ‘The Three Laws of Meetings’ to help those who run them counter unhelpful and obstructive behaviour, recognise the characteristics of a good meeting and devise an action plan to improve their meeting management skills.

Who is the course for?

More Bloody Meetings: The People Side of Meetings is an ideal course for managers who are responsible for organising and chairing meetings but who have received no formal training in effective meeting management.

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

What will you get from this course?

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

• unite the people taking part in meetings
• eliminate bad meeting behaviours such as aggression, rambling and irrelevant contributions
• involve everyone present in decisions
• avoid taking sides during meetings
• focus and mobilise the meeting group

Course features

Famous faces including John Cleese, Caroline Quentin and Danny John Jules will show you how to deal with people in meetings.  A manager dreams he is in court, charged with neglecting the human aspect of his meetings. As he learns from his errors – failing to prevent a squabble, allowing the discussion to go off at a tangent and letting himself be railroaded into a poor decision – the course explores new techniques to get people working together during meetings.

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 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.

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.

Other courses you might be interested in

Meetings, Bloody Meetings: Making Meetings More Productive
Time Management
The Unorganised Manager: Organising Yourself
Harvard ManageMentor

Course code

104198BT026

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