Meeting Management Training

New Zealand businesses spend millions per year on staff meetings, so it's important to not only get the most out of your time spent meeting with colleagues, but to assure the company also benefits from any relevant decisions or outcomes.

If you're responsible for setting or managing staff meetings, then the PD Training Meeting Management training course will teach you how to gain accountability, manage the participants, handle disruptions and ensure outcomes are followed through in a timely manner.

Starting with planning and preparing for a meeting, then moving onto managing participants and taking quality minutes to closing a meeting on time, this training course helps develop skills for handling every step required to manage meetings professionally.

This dynamic training course is available now throughout New Zealand, including Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

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Your Learning Outcomes

After completing this course participants will have learned how to:

  • Plan & prepare for meetings
  • Identify the correct participants
  • Gain insight into choosing the right time & place based on meeting type, attendees & necessary outcomes
  • Create clear & concise meeting agendas
  • Set up meeting spaces for maximum efficiency
  • Learn how to incorporate electronic options for remote participants
  • Define & assign meeting roles & responsibilities
  • Use an agenda for meeting management garnering a desired outcome & accountability
  • Chair meetings effectively by dealing with disruptions, professionally handling personality conflicts and taking meeting minutes.
 
Duration: 1.0 day course Live Online Experts



Reviews

Meeting Management Training Reviews:

"Barwon Youth always conduct surveys to capture staff's feedback of each meeting, and PD day. All feedback was positive and an example is 'finally a relevant practical training that suits everyone from HR, IT, Management and all youth/social workers!' We will definitely use PD Training and in particular 'Karen' again for professional development in the areas you offer. We conduct training for all staff every two months, so you will hear from us most definitely."

Barwon Youth

 

"The highlight was the trainer and his knowledge and delivery."

Powercor Network Services Major Projects Group

 

"Jack was able to tailor the course to be specific to my role and he had some similar experiences within his career that he was able to refer to which made the training more relevant. He was able to identify my strengths and how I will be able to utilise them over the next 2 or 3 years."

NSWBC - Extrastaff Apprenticeships

 

"The course I felt was very helpful for what I am currently involved with well done."

"Good all-round course, must parts of the course well be useful for getting meeting underway and how to keep people engaged during a meeting. Well do to Pamela in presenting the course and her ability to engaged people during the course."

Hancock Forest Management

 

"Overall it was a good experience and an excellent energising motivator for action/change."

"Really good presentation. Some great practical ideas for more efficient meetings."

 

NOW NZ Ltd

 

More happy clients




Download Course Outline (PDF)

A University study has shown that companies are wasting huge amounts of money on inefficient meetings. The study conducted by the University of South Australia discovered that one in three workers admitted to falling asleep in meetings while 87% said they daydream and 26% said they did other work.

Professor Terry Robbins-Jones, head of the University's School of Accounting and Information Systems says "People spend well over 50% of their time working with other people - making it the single most expensive activity in the business world - and yet we know nothing about it," he said.

The University of South Australia study found that 46% of executives felt meetings were a good use of time, while 33% felt that - at best - they were fairly productive. These figures suggest that utilising a "meeting auditor" or "collaborative advocate" could produce cost savings and increased productivity benefits.

This Meeting Management Training Course will assist participants with the appropriate meeting conventions and protocols to managing formal, informal and e-meetings. Participants will learn to apply tools and techniques in planning, participating in, and concluding successful meetings.

Course Outline for Meeting Management Training

Topic 1
Getting Started
  • Workshop Objectives
Topic 2
Planning for the Meeting
  • Who Should Attend?
  • Where Should it Take Place?
  • Writing the Agenda
Topic 3
Preparing for the Meeting
  • What Do You Bring?
  • Electronic or Physical Invitations?
  • Scheduling and Logistics
Topic 4
Preparing a Meeting Space
  • Minimum Requirements
  • Nice Extras to Consider
  • Choose a Physical Room Layout
Topic 5
Electronic Aids/Devices
  • Options to Consider
  • Having a Plan B
  • Decide and Test
Topic 6
Roles and Responsibilities
  • The Chairperson
  • The Minute Taker
  • The Attendees
  • Large vs Small Meetings
Topic 7
Chairing a Meeting - Part One
  • Positive Start
  • The Agenda Rules
  • Parking Lot Options
Topic 8
Chairing a Meeting - Part Two
  • Keep the Meeting on Target
  • Managing Overtime
  • Holding Attendees Accountable
Topic 9
Managing Disruptions
  • Late Arrivals/Early Exits
  • Mobile Phones Policy
  • Off Topic Discussions
  • Conflict Resolution
Topic 10
Minute Taking
  • Minutes Explained
  • Taking Minutes
  • Minute Templates Reviewed
  • Ending and Follow-up Action Items
Topic 11
Getting the Most from Business Meetings
  • Keeping Meetings Under One Hour
  • Meeting Gamification
  • Using Prize Draws
  • Other Incentives to Consider
 
 

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Face-to-Face, Live Online, or Hybrid Class Tailored to Your Needs

When you want a tailored learning experience targeting exactly what you want without bringing everyone physically together, the best choice is a Live Online Class run by PDT.

We tailor the content and activities to be specific to your current needs and the needs of the people and run the course in our usual activity-based workshop style training, however, the participants can all be offsite, or some can be in the room with others offsite.

Unless you have a preferred tools we use 'Zoom for Education' that includes enhanced collaboration features such as One-click content sharing, real-time co-annotation (people can work together in activity files), and digital whiteboarding, we also include things like live polls and group chats so you virtually have the same collaborative learning experience of attending a course in a room with other people.

live online & hybrid

We have delivered these 100's (if not 1000's) of times, and get great outcomes. We achieve great outcomes because we keep our learner centric approach - just because it’s delivered through a screen to some or all participants doesn’t mean it needs to be less tailored or less personalised.

You still have an expert trainer who talks to you prior to the session and tailors the delivery to use your terminology, ensure activities are relevant and directly applicable and ensures an engaging learning experience that provide people with skills and techniques they can apply the very next day.

A hybrid class is with some people connecting online, and some people physically together in the same room.

Live Online Participant Feedback:

90% Overall Trainer Rating

88% Delivery was Adapted to me Personally

75% I Would Recommend this Course to Someone Else

Face to Face Options With Everyone in the same room

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3-hour Power Sessions
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Full-day training
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We provide the Training Management Centre which is an information hub before, during and after training.
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Generates Sign in Sheet

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Generates Branded Flyer

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Completion Certificate Included

Collects and Reports feedback

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Complete Results Dashboard

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What are people going to do differently?

At the completion of training participants are encouraged to create an action plan, and invite an accountability buddy via their Orgmenta App.

In your Training Management Centre you have transparency to the action plans so you can see what people are going to do differently.

My Action Plan
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