
Hello and welcome to our self-paced micro-learning course on Managing Meetings. Our experience both within our firm and in supporting others shows that when meetings are not managed properly, participants become cynical about the meetings and their engagement/participation in the meetings dwindle in a manner that is detrimental to the overall health of the organization.
Our goal in this course is firstly to help you identify some of the ineffective practices that are quite common in the management of meetings and help you to try to unlearn some of these practices very quickly.
Then, we will guide you to create a culture of effective meeting management by building and incubating the skills for planning meetings; managing meeting proceedings; keeping proper records of meetings; and ensuring that meeting outcomes and actions are implemented.
This final part is very important because meetings serve an important purpose, they are not meant to happen ‘just because”. If the purpose of a meeting is to drive certain actions, then your culture of managing meetings should also focus on ensuring that the actions arising from the meetings take place – if not, the whole purpose of having the meeting will be defeated.
Based on these learning objectives, the course is divided into five distinct lessons:
Lesson 1: Common Meeting Mistakes
Lesson 2: Planning Your Meetings
Lesson 3: Managing Meeting Proceedings
Lesson 4: Minutes and Records of Meetings
Lesson 5: Meeting Follow-Ups and Action
Enjoy the learning experience!