Planning and Facilitating A Productive Meeting Workshop

Designing and Conducting Better Meetings

Oftentimes meetings seem like meandering road trips with difficult people that never seem to reach a destination. This workshop highlights the importance of the agenda as your meeting roadmap and the use of facilitation techniques that can help everyone enjoy the journey and reach the destination. In this workshop, participants will learn how to design better agendas and lead better meetings by using facilitation techniques during the meeting.

This workshop includes:

• Overview of meeting design
• Meeting roles
• Designing a discussion agenda
• Deciding on techniques
• Drafting the agenda
• Responding to discussion input
• Facilitation techniques (open discussion, ad hoc groups, brainstorming, post-its, dots, consensus ranking)

Effectively Leading Meetings

Collaboration can be challenging because people approach problems differently and they think about problems differently. In addition, people exchange information in different ways. A meeting can be an explosive mix of divergent thinking or an orderly attempt at joint problem solving. This training examines individual and group dynamics and offers some techniques to promote effective collaboration.

This workshop includes:

• Understanding your leadership style
• Meeting roles
• Ground rules
• Attention to process
• How to deal with problem people
• Special problems and appropriate responses
• Meeting Planner's Resource Kit - forms to help you plan