Facilitation and Meeting Skills

Facilitate discussions and plan, organise and run effective meetings

It's always worth considering alternative approaches to engage and enrapture attendees in meetings. Developing your facilitation and meeting skills can really help.

This course is run by experienced facilitators who will share the secrets of their success, describing in detail what to do to achieve effective results every time. Handling and effectively facilitating diverse and sometimes difficult groups can be challenging and taxing. That’s why having a range of facilitation skills techniques and exercises will increase your confidence and the impact of the meeting or session.

Benefits of this course

Develop highly effective facilitation skills and techniques to maximise the effectiveness of meetings through effective planning, delivery and follow up:

• Identify why people appear to spend most of their time in unproductive meetings and how to overcome this.
• Agree the purpose of your meetings and recognise the value of these to you, your team and organisation.
• Learn the art of facilitation in its truest sense, gaining group participation, collaboration and attention.
• Be really clear on the benefits of great planning and how to do this in real time.
• Shape your meetings to account for your audience and agreed outcomes.
• Define roles and responsibilities when chairing, recording and facilitating a meeting.
• Save time and energy by adopting new approaches to where, when and how you hold your meetings.

Who should attend?

Anyone who plans and delivers meetings at any level, from formal board meetings to informal discussions, who wants to save time, energy and resources and avoid unnecessary conflict. Those who facilitate meetings and discussions of any size, who would like to develop their skills in order to become more effective.