P-E Corporate Services SA (Pty) Ltd Management Consultants

Making Your Meetings Work

How to plan, organise and conduct Productive meetings

A one-day training programme

Presented as an in company training course

We live in a meeting society - a world made up of groups of people who come together for various lengths of time to solve problems, develop budgets,, hire and fire, and for many other purposes. The reasons for holding meetings are almost as numerous as the number of hours spent in meetings. Research shows that the average individual in our society will sit through nine thousand hours of meetings in a lifetime - over 365 days - and that organisations spend thousands, sometimes millions of Rands on meetings.

Yet most people groan at the thought of attending another meting! Why? Because meetings are often mismanaged - they get off the track, are interrupted, take too much time, have unclear agendas, and lack effective leadership. While most of us spend a great deal of time preparing for the work we do, we spend almost no time learning how to attend or conduct all of the meetings that accompany the process of getting our work done. In this one-day programme participants will learn how to plan, organise and conduct productive meetings, including steps for preparation of a meeting, developing an agenda, encouraging participation, handling counter-productive behaviours, and planning action for follow-up.

What Participants Will Learn

Learn how to plan and conduct meetings to maximise participation and achieve desired outcomes.
Increase understanding of the differences between task and interpersonal issues in a group.
Develop an action plan for using effective meeting practices.
Build confidence ion the use of effective meeting leadership practices