The document outlines objectives for conducting effective meetings, including planning, defining roles, managing behaviors, and evaluating meeting quality. It emphasizes the importance of preparation, agendas, and follow-up, while also addressing common pitfalls that render meetings unproductive. Additionally, it highlights various meeting types and methods to enhance team collaboration and effectiveness.

2. Program Objectives Develop a meeting plan. Define roles that contribute to making a meeting more effective. Identify and practice behaviors that help build a team. Learn and practice techniques to better manage your meetings. Deal constructively with behaviors that may hinder effectiveness. Evaluate the quality of meetings.

3. Identify the things that go wrong at meetings and brainstorm ways to overcome these problems. Describe the difference between process and content. Gain knowledge of four meeting types: information sharing, gathering, problem solving, decision making and planning/strategizing. Program Objectives

4. Discuss and practice several meeting methods: brainstorming, agenda, free-field analysis, group consensus and the action register. Gain knowledge of the importance of careful meeting preparation. Write meeting objectives. Plan a meeting agenda. Program Objectives

5. Write a means to inform participants about the meeting. Design an opening statement of the purpose of the meeting. Describe the importance of follow-up after the meeting and be aware of the group method. Identify the difference between task functions and group relations functions. Program Objectives

6. Recognize some different personalities and learn some tips for handling some group interaction problems. Participate in a meeting with prepared notes and agenda. Create an action plan for meeting effectiveness. Complete post work assignment to participants’ satisfaction. Program Objectives

7. A Challenge Please write a one sentence definition of RUNNING EFFECTIVE MEETINGS.

8. Definition Of A Meeting A coming together of an assembly.

9. Why Have A Meeting To solve a problem. To make a decision. To develop a plan. To gather or convey information. To get a response to information. To obtain approval/reach consensus. To establish understanding/rapport. To clarify responsibilities. To create a sense of teamwork.

10. Meetings Are Unproductive (1 of 2) Purpose of the meeting is unclear. There is no agenda/organization. The leader tries to accomplish too much. The meeting starts late. Too many people are at the meeting.

11. Meetings Are Unproductive (2 of 2) The leader loses control. One person dominates the meeting. Individuals wander from the topic. Individuals go back over old items. No clear direction/no clear conclusions are reached.

12. Where to Begin So where does the conductor of a meeting begin? With an AGENDA !

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