BUS5660 - Leading Effective Meetings

Course Description

This course provides strategies and skills to help leaders plan and facilitate meetings. Organization's use meetings as a means for communicating or collaborating with other people. Achieving meeting objectives and active participation become critical for leaders to ensure success. Participants will be prepared with an understanding of effective meeting components, develop skills to facilitate brainstorming and participation strategies, and develop meeting collateral such as Agendas and Minutes which can be applied in their organizations.  Each class is 1-day and can accommodate up to 30 students for a flat fee of $2,500.

Learner Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to:

1. Identify and recall key concepts and objectives for various meeting components during planning, facilitating, and follow-up
2. Recognize and identify various meeting roles
3. Identify and select appropriate meeting environments
4. Participate in class and group activities to gain exposure of different participation activities such as brainstorming
5. Identify and select appropriate strategies to maintain meeting goals such as Parking Lots and action items
6. Participate in class and group activities to gain an understanding of various strategies and tools
7. Identify and recreate various meeting tools such as an Agenda and Minutes
8. Identify various types of meetings and their differences to apply effective practices in status meetings, decision-making meetings, and collaborative discussions

Notes

Patrick Leddy 
Workforce Development Coordinator
psleddy@hawaii.edu

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