The Productive Meeting
CPD Points: 5, This is a 1 day Course
Description
Given the sheer number of operational meetings each person engages in, we cannot afford the current level of meeting ineffectiveness.
We spend more and more of our time in meetings and yet people often voice that meetings are a complete waste of time. We can change this. The fundamentals of an effective meetings are that it is well organised, runs to time, covers the issues, creates quality decisions, reaches consensus and leads to positive, motivated action by the participants of the meeting. With the right set of skills, processes and strategies this is possible, time and time again. This powerful one-day course will have you running meetings that people look forward to because they achieve.
Content
- Understanding the attributes of effective meetings
- Planning excellence - how to get off on the right foot
- The importance of an agenda and how to construct it
- Ensuring people arrived prepared
- Facilitation versus chairing - reaching better conclusions
- Qualities, skills and attributes of the effective facilitator
- Blueprint for effective, productive facilitation
- Opening meetings - use of icebreakers and introductions
- Establishing and enforcing ground rules
- Structure and timing within meetings
- Ensuring everybody contributes, even the quiet ones
- Brainstorming methodology
- Evaluating proposals & consensus building techniques
- Dealing with difficult people and re-establishing control
- Appropriate, action-orientated minutes
- Closing on a high, contracting and ensuring action
Benefits and objectives
- Run meetings more efficiently with better outcomes
- Develop advanced facilitation skills
- Gain a variety of consensus building techniques
- Understand and manage different behaviours within meetings
- Ensure action is always achieved following meetings
- Make meetings fun, interactive and productive
Course type and teaching methods
This is a highly interactive balance of latest theory and its practical application designed to equip both the expert and novice with all they need to ensure meetings are productive, action-orientated, engaging and effective!
Target Audience
| Doctors | Nurses | Bus & Admin | Allied Pros |
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In-House Training. Why not have your own course?
In-house or bespoke training, either as a one-off or a whole programme, we can tailor any programme to the needs of your organisation orspecific objectives you have, allowing you to benefit from development where every aspect is designed to improve your performance specifically.
A single days training typically costs just £1,650 + VAT for up to 20 people, possibly more, and this drops with the volume of work you engage us to do. A whole developmental programme could be delivered with significant further savings.
Partnership Programme
The mid-sized group, say 5-8 people, has always suffered from being slightly too small to cost effectively organise in-house training for and yet sufficiently large as to collective cost quite a bit to train via open courses. Not any more...
Medicology’s Partnership Programme is a stroke of pure brilliance, allowing participants to benefit from an in-house course at extremely low cost, possibly even FREE (yes, we did say that right). Trusts and groups of individuals can now benefit from bringing any of our open programmes in-house for as little as £0.00 per person. Let us tell you how.
Course Testimonials
"Very clear & very insightful, very worthwhile!"
Immunisations & Communicable Disease Strategist, NHS Camden (March 2010)
"Small group, experienced facilitator - true clinical management experience"
Consultant in Acute Medicine, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (March 2010)
"Go for it!"
Consultant Surgeon - New Cross Wolverhampton (2009)
"useful examples/scenarios to allow application of theories to practise"
SpR Oral Medicine - NHS (2009)
"Good points and facilitator, covered lots of material"
Consultant in Histopathology - Derby Hospital NHS Trust (2009)
"Useful skills for managing meetings and getting the most from them - go"
Consultant in Emergency Medicine - University Hospital of North Staffordshire (2009)
Additional Information
Registration Time: 0915
Start Time: 0945
Finish Time: 16:15 - 16:30
Course format: Course
Accommodation Arrangements: Accommodation is not included
Included in Registration Fee: Course fees include all materials & assessments, refreshments and lunch
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