Running Effective Business Meetings Curriculum Outline
Preparing for Effective Business Meetings
Overview/DescriptionWhatever their format, efficient meetings are those that not only accomplish tasks but progress in a way that makes the best use of participants time. Because meetings are one of the most expensive modes of communication in todays organizations, its critical that you optimize the time you spend in them. Running an effective meeting starts with careful planning. This course will show you how to clarify a meetings purpose and objectives, and how to determine whether a given meeting is truly necessary or whether a similar result could be achieved through a different type of communication. It will also equip you with the skills to choose the best participants, and create an agenda that will guide the group to achieve meeting goals as efficiently and productively as possible. Finally, it will describe how to prepare yourself, your venue, and your participants to ensure a successful meeting free of unnecessary distractions.
Target AudienceIndividuals who want to develop their planning, managing, and facilitation skills for running effective business meetings
Expected Duration (hours)1.0
Lesson Objectives Preparing for Effective Business Meetings
Recognize the value of planning meetings Determine whether or not a meeting is necessary in a given scenario Recognize who should participate in a meeting Recognize how to use a process for creating an effective agenda Recognize how to prepare yourself and others for a meeting Course Number:
comm_32_a01_bs_enus Back to ListManaging Effective Business Meetings
Overview/DescriptionIneffective meetings can waste time, veer off course, and fail to meet objectives. But with the right techniques, you can lead productive meetings that achieve their goals and leave participants with a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment. Whether regular, recurring, or set up to achieve a special task, all meetings follow a core process: from opening on a positive note, through accomplishing the agenda items, to closing the meeting and following up. This course will lead you through that process, presenting best practices that will help you realize success as you fulfill your responsibilities as a meeting leader. It will show you how to open the meeting with a positive tone and facilitate the work of the group using the right approach to decision making. It will explore how to encourage full participation while keeping your agenda moving and discussions on track with effective time-management techniques. Finally, this course will present tips for closing the meeting and ensuring continued progress by circulating minutes and following up on action items.
Target AudienceIndividuals who want to develop their planning, managing, and facilitation skills for running effective business meetings
Expected Duration (hours)1.0
Lesson Objectives Managing Effective Business Meetings
Recognize the goals served by examples of opening statements in a meeting Recognize steps that are common to conducting both regular and task force meetings Recognize how to facilitate decision-making to maximize participation and buy-in Respond appropriately when discussion goes off track in a meeting Recognize the responsibilities of the meeting leader with respect to closing and following up after the meeting Course Number:
comm_32_a02_bs_enus Back to ListDealing with Common Meeting Problems
Overview/DescriptionHave you ever been in a meeting where conflict got in the way of achieving meeting goals? Where someone dominated the discussion and others didnt contribute at all? Where the discussion wandered and little was accomplished? The human factor can introduce problems in meetings, despite your best preparation and planning endeavors. But you can learn to improve the effectiveness of your meetings by evaluating them and addressing common problems that jeopardize their progress. This course shows you how to measure the effectiveness of your meetings, and how to intervene appropriately during meetings to get back on track when specific problems arise. It explores numerous cases involving lack of civility and decorum, poor productivity, and unbalanced participation, and equips you with strategies for handling these problems. Finally, this course surveys the unique challenges of the virtual meeting format, and provides guidelines for getting the most out of your virtual meetings in spite of these challenges.
Target AudienceIndividuals who want to develop their planning, managing, and facilitation skills for running effective business meetings
Expected Duration (hours)1.0
Lesson Objectives Dealing with Common Meeting Problems
Identify best practices for evaluating the effectiveness of your meetings Recognize statements that represent best practices for intervening in a meeting Match decorum problems to appropriate responses Recognize the best approaches for dealing with a given productivity problem in a meeting Recognize how to intervene appropriately to balance participation in a meeting Determine appropriate interventions for addressing the problems in a meeting scenario Recognize which common problems of virtual meetings are likely to be reduced by specific actions Course Number:
comm_32_a03_bs_enus Back to ListWhen Too Many Meetings Are Just Too Much
Overview/DescriptionWhile meetings are a necessary part of business, their frequency often becomes excessive. This Business Impact details the importance of ensuring that meetings are an effective use of the attendees time.
Expected Duration (hours)0.1
Lesson Objectives When Too Many Meetings Are Just Too Much
Course Number:_pc_bi_pfbi008
Back to ListMaking Meetings Work
Overview/DescriptionToo often meetings are not a productive use of time. This Business Impact examines how to run meetings that are useful and efficient.
Target AudienceStudents preparing to enter the workforce, entry level employees who have just entered the workforce and mid-level employees looking to refresh their skills.
Expected Duration (hours)0.1
Lesson Objectives Making Meetings Work
Course Number:_pc_bi_pfbi018
Back to ListManaging Meetings for Productivity and Effectiveness
Overview/DescriptionEffective meetings require careful planning and management. This challenge focuses on scheduling and preparing productive meetings.
Target AudienceMid- to upper-level managers and executives; all high potentials and fast trackers, including individual contributors.
Expected Duration (hours)0.2
Lesson Objectives Managing Meetings for Productivity and Effectiveness
Course Number:_pc_ch_lach031
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Running Effective Business Meetings
In order to kick a business development off the ground most companies will hold a meeting to
discuss how and why this development should be implemented. These meetings require strategic planning to ensure that
they are interesting and inspiring so that its participants do not push to “get it over with” and actually accomplish
some of their set goals. Professionals should go into these gatherings knowing how to actively participate and create
enthusiasm and our online business training course can help.
Many of the meetings held rarely yield much when it comes to industrious actions. Since most business leaders spend
half of their time in meetings, it would help if they had the know how to efficiently manage these conferences and keep
them productive. There are many factors that can have an effect on how the assembly will go such as the location and/or
time the meeting takes place.
With CBT Directs Online Business Development Training you will learn how to make the most out of these meetings by
allocating practical tools that will help you lead a more successful meeting. Our online business training will present
the information needed to increase the possibility of a positive outcome from these meetings and thereby increasing the
chances of project success. CBT Direct will also stress the need to know your role within these meetings as well as the
strategic planning necessary to get the most out of them.
Benefits of CBT Direct’s Online Business Development Training
CBT Direct boasts the most beneficial online training on the market. With CBT Direct’s online training, you have
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The unique design of CBT Direct’s business development course emphasizes learner initiative, self-management and
experiential learning. CBT Direct’s online course design begins with the definition of user-focused performance objectives
and then proceeds to the selection and implementation of instructional strategies and learning activities appropriate for
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level of comprehension and retention.
Who Benefits from CBT Direct’s Online Business
Development Training?
Our online business training course is for any professionals that want to learn or maintain effectual
facilitation abilities and also any professional that participates in committees, taskforces, strategic planning groups and/or
business meetings.
What Professionals Will Learn from CBT Direct’s Online Business Development Training
CBT Direct’s Online Business Development Training will explain how to decide if planning an assembly is required and the
type of meeting that would be necessary. Based on which type of gathering, our online training will demonstrate how to work
out the proper people to invite. Professionals will examine the methods used to examine how to hold their gathering at the
most efficient time and location. In addition, they will look at planning an agenda along with figuring out how to optimize
objectives.
Using strategic planning skills learned in this course, professionals will classify the preparations required for getting
the site of the conference, as well as its participants, ready for the event. CBT Direct will show the learner how to get ready
for the follow-up actions before the meeting actually occurs. Our online business training will also explain the ways a meeting
can be finished in a prompt and timely manner. Click here to see a detailed curriculum outline.
Professionals will assess the right language a leader should use at particular points in the meeting. They will review the
types of questions that promote member involvement along with the tools for effective meeting leadership. With our business
training, the learner will go over icebreakers and rules in addition to audio visual equipment used for video conferencing and
general meeting displays. Additionally, CBT Direct will consider the value and the roles of the secretary, the chairperson and
the participants of the meeting.
CBT Directs Online Business Development Training can help you to plan, hold and complete an efficient and productive meeting.
Our online training will give you the business know-how to keep the affair on task as well as actually making it an animated and
interesting affair. Professionals will obtain the information needed to increase business development and strategic planning skills
that will amplify their ability to make a meeting happen and get the most out of it.
Running Effective Business Meetings
