Making Meetings Work - Online course

Duration: 1 day course with break and lunch time (10.00-15.30)

Digital book (pdf) included: Speed Read: Meetings

About

Tired of meetings that waste time or lose focus? Making Meetings Work is for anyone who leads, chairs, or facilitates meetings and wants to make them more effective, engaging, and purposeful.

In just one day, you’ll discover practical techniques to design and lead meetings that spark ideas, encourage contribution, and move your group forward with confidence and clarity. Expect a lively, hands-on session that challenges unhelpful meeting habits and introduces fresh, inclusive ways to make every voice count.

If you’ve ever left a meeting feeling frustrated, drained, or unsure what was achieved, this course will help you turn meetings into energising, inclusive, and genuinely useful spaces for collaboration.

Who should attend?

Anyone who chairs, leads, or facilitates meetings who wants to create focused, engaging and productive sessions from board and team leaders to project coordinators.

Outcomes

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Set a clear purpose and structure for every meeting
• Apply practical behaviours to effectively contribute to meetings
• Build habits that make your meetings shorter, sharper and more effective
• Create paperwork which helps keeps meetings focussed and relevant
• Use online functions to support engagement and efficiency
• Use creative, inclusive approaches to engage discussion

What will it cover?

• Why meetings fail – spotting and fixing the common pitfalls
• Roles and responsibilities – chair, facilitator, participants and minute-takers
• Preparation and paperwork – crafting clear agendas and essential information
• The meetings menagerie – encouraging helpful behaviours and managing the tricky ones
• Assertive chairing – leading with confidence and clarity

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Trainer: Cathy Shimmin and George Knight, DSC