Meetings, Bloody Meetings: Making Meetings More Productive

Introduction

A 2005 Microsoft survey found that the average worker spends 5.6 hours each week in meetings, yet 69% of workers felt that meetings weren’t productive!  This course has been designed to help businesses minimise the waste of time, money and human resource that result from poorly run meetings.

Meetings, Bloody Meetings: Making Meetings More Productive is an introduction to the skills needed to run efficient, effective meetings.  The course explores a five-step approach to planning, structuring and recording meetings to help managers ensure the meeting experience is as productive, informative and motivating as possible. 

Who is the course for?

Meetings, Bloody Meetings: Making Meetings More Productive is suitable for anyone who organises and chairs meetings, but has little or no knowledge of how to prepare for them, control the discussion or ensure a productive outcome.

This course is appropriate to any business sector, there are no formal entry requirements and employees do not require any prior experience.

What will you get from this course?

When you have completed this course you will be able to:

• define the five disciplines of professionally-run business meetings
• prepare yourself to chair or attend a meeting
• understand how to plan an agenda
• understand how to control the discussion
• take steps to record any decisions made

Course features

Famous faces including John Cleese, Robert Hardy and Jeremy Childs will show you how to and how not to run a meeting! Set in a dream-world court room, a cynical manager is found guilty of failing to prepare for and ensure a meeting is productive.  He goes on to learn the five ‘court room’ rules of running effective meetings.

Set in everyday surroundings, well-known performers act out realistic situations in a light hearted and entertaining way that will help you recognise some common errors and understand how to correct them.  The familiar settings and witty role play will help you to apply the material to your own workplace.

Before you begin you’ll take a short test to help identify any knowledge gaps. As you work through the course you’ll be presented with simple exercises to check your learning.

You can start the course straight away and access it at any time, providing you have the use of a computer with an internet connection. The course is available for six months from the date first accessed.

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Course code

104198BT008

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