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It’s common knowledge that many employees will use any excuse to avoid meetings. Some participants will use laptops to write e-mail or work on a project and many employees will use meeting time to mentally space out or daydream. All of this behavior is disturbing when you consider that business meetings are a major investment of both time and money. Fortunately, if some specific meeting guidelines and strategies are incorporated into interactions, meeting time and money will be well spent. This course, Powerful Meetings, focuses on the essential tools and techniques that you’ll need to keep participants involved, productive, and satisfied.

 

After completing Powerful Meetings, participants will be able to:

• Understand four purposes for meetings;
• Differentiate between types of meetings;
• Establish meeting ground rules;
• Implement meeting tools;
• Use an announcement, agenda, minutes, and follow-up for meetings;
• Apply facilitation skills;
• Enforce participants’ responsibilities;
• Understand tips for leading effective meetings;
• Apply participation guidelines; and
• Incorporate meeting assessments.

 

Powerful Meetings utilizes an interactive structure with six sections (Overview, Multimedia Presentation, Readings, Questions & Answers, Implementation, and Respond). Engaging audio and visual components as well as printable materials are incorporated into the course. A Certificate of Completion will be awarded.

 

Powerful Meetings is designed for existing and potential managers who want to create and maintain cohesive and productive meetings.

 

Reading, Exercises, Implementation Plan, and Quiz.

 

2-3 hours

 

Internet Browser: Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher, Firefox, Safari, or Opera. Sound card and speakers/headphones for audio.

 

Participants can access this course on computers running Windows, Macintosh, or Unix Variants.

 

Course participants will have access to the course for a period of six weeks from the date of enrollment in the course.

 

$39