Effective Meeting Leadership

Mastering time, focus, and results in every meeting.

What you'll learn

Learn how to assess each meeting on your schedule to determine if a meeting is needed.

Create a focused objective and an action-oriented meeting agenda.

Use the Impact-Interest Grid to identify and invite the right people to your meeting.

Prepare the attendees and yourself for meeting success.

Lead the meeting using an active facilitation approach.

Requirements

No prior experience or knowledge is needed. Learners should have access to basic word publishing software like Google docs, Microsoft Word, or similar.

Description

The 'Effective Meeting Leadership' eLearning course provides five principles you will learn to lead more effective meetings. We begin with Principle 1: Determine if a Meeting is Needed, where you will learn how to remove ineffective meetings from your calendar so you gain that time back for more important priorities. After freeing up your time, you will learn how to free up their time, then learn the remaining four principles that help you ensure that each meeting you do attend, and those that you lead, have a clear objective, an action-oriented agenda, with only the right people needed to achieve the objective. You learn novel ways to prepare the attendees and yourself for meeting success, and ways to visualize meeting success all before the meeting starts. Then, we end with important facilitation techniques that supercharge your group's focus, ensuring you achieve the meeting outcome intended. The five principles of Effective Meeting Leadership are:Principle 1: Determine if a Meeting is NeededPrinciple 2: Design a Focused Objective & AgendaPrinciple 3: Invite the Right PeoplePrinciple 4: Prepare the AttendeesPrinciple 5: Lead the MeetingBy the end of this course, you should have reduced your meeting volume, gained back valuable time, and becoming known for leading focused, effective meetings, that achieve consistent results.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Principle 1: Determine if a Meeting is Needed

Lecture 2 Principle 1: Determine if a Meeting is Needed

Section 3: Principle 2: Design a Focused Objective & Agenda

Lecture 3 Principle 2: Design a Focused Objective & Agenda

Section 4: Principle 3: Invite the Right People

Lecture 4 Principle 3: Invite the Right People

Section 5: Principle 4: Prepare the Attendees

Lecture 5 Principle 4: Prepare the Attendees

Section 6: Principle 5: Lead the Meeting

Lecture 6 Principle 5: Lead the Meeting

Section 7: Course Summary

Lecture 7 Course Summary

This course if for the anyone who finds themselves spending too much of their time in business meetings. This course will show you how to clear your schedule, gain more time back for focused, meaningful work, and how to lead more effective meetings.