Coaching, Consulting & Training
for High Value Personnel
What Others Are Saying
Rob is a "driver" personality of legendary proportions. He has a phenomenal capability to drive consensus amongst people of various perspectives,can move complex business issues forward, and has the ability to get people to engage and meaningfully commit in order to make important things happen. He's also one of those rare people of great integrity and character. I cannot recommend Rob more for work that taps into his multitude of professional talents.
Elizabeth Allen, Principal, MarketSmartz
Effective Meeting Management
High-value employees spend much of their time in meetings. Unfortunately, many meetings produce little added value to your company. When one considers the cost of labor for the meeting and how much does or does not get done in them, there is a huge performance improvement opportunity in learning how to structure and run meetings well.
A Reality-Based Technology, the Effective Meeting Management workshop teaches participants how to plan and conduct meetings that achieve specific objectives and do so as efficiently as possible. Participants learn:
- Who to invite (and not invite) to the meeting
- How to "set up" their attendees for focused participation
- How to structure their meetings to resolve the most pressing issues
- How to drive the meeting content
- How to manage meeting participants
- How to recognize and avoid meeting pitfalls
- How to ensure accountabilities following the meeting, so that the work continues to progress
- How to evaluate the meeting, so that meetings continue to improve over time
- How to prepare for future meetings
- Which meetings they can (and should) remove from their schedules
During the workshop, participants conduct a "practice" meeting to experience particular meeting dynamics, which are used as a base for concept learning, discussion and reinforcement. Later, they develop a detailed meeting plan for conducting their own meetings following the workshop.
Optional (Team Setting): If the workshop participants comprise an intact work team, they also choose specific meeting norms and then conduct a meeting to accomplish real work, with instructor coaching and feedback.
Benefits
Organizations that employ Effective Meeting Management experience:
- Increased focus and participation by meeting attendees
- Improved meeting work products
- Shorter meetings
- Fewer meetings
- Greater individual and collective productivity
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