Effective Team Meeting Strategies

It is estimated there are an average of 11 million meetings being held in the United States each day. Managers and leaders must ensure these meetings are conducted efficiently and successfully to enable organizations to meet their objectives. This course provides insights on key components of hosting an effective team meeting by defining a proven structure that can be utilized by all levels of an organization and will provide examples for real-world applications.

How You Will Benefit

You will be provided a template for how to structure meetings and best practices regarding planning for team meetings. Additionally, you will learn new methodologies that can be applied immediately to improve meetings reaching successful outcomes. You will also be provided several strategies for how to manage conflicts during meetings.

What You Will Learn

In this course, you will learn meeting management techniques including:

• Assessing previous meetings and determining areas for improvement
• Preparing for meetings and determining their purpose
• Facilitating meetings to ensure the goal is met
• Ending a meeting and clarifying potential next steps or action items
• Reassessing the success of meetings and continuing to make improvements

Who Should Attend

This course is intended for all members of a team or organization who are interested in learning skills to increase the effectiveness of the meetings they attend or host.

Format

Duration / PDU Value

This course is worth 1 PDU hour.

Outline

Introduction

• Learning Objectives and Agenda

Overview

• The Importance of Effective Team Meetings

Effective Meeting Facilitation

• Assess Previous Meetings
• Preparing for Meetings
• Overview and Process Introduction
• Create an Agenda and Attendee List
• Identify Tools and Finalize Details
• Effective Meeting Facilitation
• Facilitate Skillfully
• Manage Meeting Problems
• Wrapping Up a Meeting

Course Summary