Facilitating Meetings
Increase the efficiency of your meetings and achieve sound results
You know the situation, coming out of a meeting which was not worth its time: Starts late, only some of those invited turned up, a discussion which never gets to the point – and after all, that everything takes longer that planned. As moderators, managers wish to bring their own ideas and intentions into discussions. As a project leader, you want to obtain mutual planning and problem-solving ideas. Do you want to put these time-consuming and ineffective meetings to one side?
Seminar Objectives
A few clear rules make professional facilitators stand out from their peers. In this seminar you will learn how to prepare well for meetings and how to conduct these effectively. You will learn methods and techniques with which to actively control a meeting as the moderator. This will enable you to skilfully involve all participants in discussions on challenging issues, and to handle awkward participants well.
This way, you will find out about your individual strengths and potentials during the seminar!
Your Benefit
A principle applies to this seminar: Little theory and more practice. The focus of the seminar lies on the actual moderations of the participants. Every participant practices immediately and applies the contents learned whilst still in the seminar. Concrete and individual feedback shows you how to prepare and implement effective moderation, and also provides you with a true understanding of your own effect on others. Discover your individual strengths and potentials when moderating meetings!
Seminar Topics
Orientation
- What is the benefit of a facilitated meeting?
- What is the role of a facilitator?
- What are helpful attitudes while facilitating a meeting?
A look at the team
- What are the critical success factors of teamwork?
- What are typical team development phases and how can I deal with them in the meetings?
- How can we provide constructive feedback?
Preparing a meeting
- How to develop the agenda?
- What framework do you need to successfully facilitate a meeting?
- Which tools do you need as a facilitator?
Accomplishing meetings
- You will accomplish own meetings on the basis of current topics.
- You will receive feedback and guidance from both the group and the instructor which you can immediately use
Difficult situations
- You will practice how to handle difficult situations and how to cope with special participants.
Further Details
- Target Group
This course is designed for all who lead meetings or work in a team, such as Project Leaders or team members. - Group Size
Maximum of 10 participants. This way, we wish to make sure that the seminar is highly efficient and guarantee the highest possible benefit for you. - Language
Our open enrolment courses are in German only. As an in-house seminar we can deliver this course also in Enlish. - Duration
2 days - Notice
In English, we normally conduct this course only as an inhouse-seminar. Please contact us for further details. If you are interested in open enrolment courses in German, please visit our German language site.