Professional Development at Your Location

Meetings That Produce Results

Objective: To develop skills in planning meetings, facilitate meeting participation, and manage for effective results through commitment and follow-up.

Target Audience: Any IT individual responsible for planning or facilitating any type of group meetings either within IT or with members of the business unit. This is also an excellent workshop for business unit members who conduct meetings.

Focus:
Planning Effective Meetings
Meeting Materials / Handouts
Who to Invite / Expectations
Meeting Facilitation
Problem Resolution and Commitments
Effective Follow Up

Program Details:

Before the Meeting
To Meet or Not
Purpose, Objectives, & Agenda
Who to Invite
Meeting Notice & Handouts

During the Meeting
The Opening
Tips & Techniques
Documenting the Meeting
The Wrap Up

After the Meeting
Meeting Notes
Action Planning

Practice
The Assignment
Preparation
Facilitating Your Meeting
Feedback

Action Planning

Learning Objectives for the Workshop
How to prepare for facilitating a meeting
When to have a meeting & when not to
Who to invite & who not to
How to get a meeting focused in the first three minutes
How to document the results of the meeting
What to do after the meeting
How to keep the meeting from straying off the topic

Program Length: One Day

Professional Skills are the Key to the Effective Application of Technology to the Business Process.

Contact Sandy Gaston at sandy@omicron.edu or 404-255-0096 for information, scheduling, and fees.