Running Effective Meetings

This course is aimed at individuals who want to improve their meeting management and facilitation skills, ensuring that meetings are purposeful, well-organized, and result-oriented.

This course will cover the key areas of preparing, planning, controlling, closing and following up on meetings.

Specifically it will cover:

• How to properly prepare for a meeting

• How to open the open strongly and with purpose

• How to effectively chair a meeting by managing  the agenda and the attendees

• How to close a meeting so it is well summarised and concluded on a strong note

• What to consider and do after the meeting

There are seven sections in this course:

1. Introduction to running effective meetings

2. Stage 1: Preparing for a meeting

3. Stage 2: Opening a meeting

4. Stage 3: Controlling a meeting

5. Stage 4: Closing a meeting

6. Stage 5: Following up on a meeting

7. Course summary

Each section consists of a brief and informative video to present the content for each section, with quick multiple choice quiz questions available for sections 2 to 6 to test your knowledge and understanding of the content and its application.

This course is designed for anyone with no, or limited, knowledge of how to effectively chair a meeting and how it works.