Managing Productive Meetings

Training to ensure meetings produce positive outcomes

Meeting management is an essential tool of the engineering team member to understand client requirements, report on progress, resolve issues and activity management.  Many organisations use meetings for information distribution, communication and decision making – in teams, project groups, working parties, stakeholder forums and other purposes.

At their best meetings can be creative, purposeful and supportive. Yet some meetings can become unfocused, unproductive or interpersonally unpleasant. They are always expensive – yet we often plan or attend meetings unprepared, with confused agendas and with little structure or skills to help us achieve the purpose of the meeting.   The use of technology can also exacerbate some of these problems.   Learn more about Managing Productive Meetings:

• Learning Outcomes
• Course Outline
• In-house Delivery
• About the facilitator

Learning Outcomes

• Establish clear meeting objectives and outcomes
• Recognise and practice the roles and skills of an effective meeting ‘chairperson’ or meeting facilitator
• Design and structure effective meetings, including appropriate use of agendas, meeting protocols and meeting minutes.
• Understand your  preferred participation style and the impact this has on contribution to meetings
• Implement strategies to encourage optimal participation
• Apply review tools for observing and evaluating meetings
   

Course Outline

As  a member of an engineering team who chairs meetings, this course will cover:

In-house Delivery

This course can be delivered to in-house teams which may have the following advantages:

• Choosing dates that work with your schedule
• Tailoring content to your specific needs
• Customising content to reflect your approach
• Value for your learning dollar

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Facilitator Information

About the Facilitator

Christina Katopis is a highly experienced and dynamic facilitator, with over 17 years of training and consulting experience across numerous sectors. She has experience in working with both public and private organisations throughout Australasia. She was employed as a Senior Training Consultant for Reuters Asia.  In this role, she delivered corporate training programs to staff throughout Asia.

Christina has the following qualifications:

• Degree in Social Work
• Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Development
• DISC accreditation
• MBTI accreditation
• GENOS Emotional Intelligence

Christina is regarded as a knowledgeable, interactive and enthusiastic facilitator. She has an immensely loyal client base in a wide range of industries. Her style is participative, engaging and enjoyable.  Her approach to facilitating encompasses key adult learning principles. She actively ensures all materials presented are relevant to participants’ work situations.

A 10% saving for engineers Australia members.