{"id":980,"date":"2010-08-18T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/?p=980"},"modified":"2010-08-18T14:00:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T13:00:10","slug":"meeting-management-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/08\/meeting-management-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting Management Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Integration Training work with <a href=\"http:\/\/integrationtraining.co.uk\/communication_training.html\">communication training<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/integrationtraining.co.uk\/time_management_training.html\">time management<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/integrationtraining.co.uk\/management_training.html\">leadership training<\/a> and the issue of managing meetings often comes up. Here are a few tips to make meetings more effective. You will need to adapt them to the circumstances that you find yourself in naturally:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Let people know the purpose of the meeting ahead of time and any expectations you have. E.g. \u201cplease read the marketing report attached and be ready for a punctual 9.00am start\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Start by thanking people for coming, stating the purpose and length of the meeting.<\/li>\n<li>Balance task and relationship focus throughout.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFrame\u201d the meeting clearly and in a way which keeps the focus, \u201ce.g. Thank you for coming. We are all aware that profits are down and we need to come-up with new sales strategies by the end of his meeting at 17.00\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Listen empathically and acknowledge emotions.<\/li>\n<li>Be specific with you requests during the meeting, e.g. \u201cwhat do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of this approach?\u201d not \u201cwhat do you think?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Manage yourself and maintain a composed embodied presence.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t be afraid to skilfully interrupt if chairing. Maintain a state of \u201cbenevolent urgency\u201d. Never interrupt otherwise.<\/li>\n<li>Summarise regularly and acknowledge when the meeting is on and off-track throughout.<\/li>\n<li>Celebrate success and show gratitude.<\/li>\n<li>Model the behaviour that you would like from other participants.<\/li>\n<li>If long meetings are typical hold meetings standing up.<\/li>\n<li>If unnecessary meetings are regularly called ask the value of each meeting to be publicly assessed by all those who attend\u00a0 &#8211; e.g. on a poster.<\/li>\n<li>Meetings normally end with action points &#8211; who, what and by when are crucial to clarify<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-983\" title=\"meetings\" src=\"http:\/\/integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/meetings1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/meetings1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/meetings1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Integration Training work with communication training, time management and leadership training and the issue of managing meetings often comes up. Here are a few tips to make meetings more effective. You will need to adapt them to the circumstances that you find yourself in naturally: Let people know the purpose of the meeting ahead of time and any expectations you have. E.g. \u201cplease read the marketing report attached and be ready for a punctual 9.00am start\u201d. Start by thanking people for coming, stating the purpose and length of the meeting. Balance task and relationship focus throughout. \u201cFrame\u201d the meeting clearly <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[552],"tags":[1136,1255,1432,1506,1562,1835],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/meetings1.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9xvDN-fO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}