Learning Objectives

Participants that complete this workshop will learn:

• When you should hold a meeting and when to choose another form of correspondence
• The optimal time of day to hold meetings
• How long to convene a meeting
• Meeting room arrangement
• How to facilitate involvement
• How to reduce exhaustion from long meetings
• The proper process to presenting your ideas
• Meeting audit assessment tools
• Techniques for maintaining control
• How to use questions to control and to influence
• A list of powerful questions for important conversations
• How to handle “problematic people”
• How to solicit employee sentiment
• Ways to create buy-in
• Techniques to initiate change
• How to properly communicate objectives and deadlines
• The best ways to deliver bad news
• Understanding the different categories of meetings and the nuanced approaches needed to ensure the success of each type
• ”Asks” and next steps - putting ideas and plans into action

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