RachelGreen.Com Pty Ltd

Better business meetings

Are your meetings boring, irrelevant or dominated by a few? Or worse still do they go on for too long, go off on tangents and fail to make crucial decisions? The number of hours we all spend in business meetings each year is enormous. And yet, so many business meetings are poorly chaired, fail to optimise on the input and expertise of everyone present, and waste time.

Here is your unique chance to make your meetings effective.

Just in case you think you will be sent off to a standard ho-hum workshop where you go through how to run effective business meetings - you won't. This is a far more dynamic, practical and relevant solution than that.

What we do is send Rachel to sit in and observe you and your team in a real meeting. She then gives feedback after or during the meeting so you are coached to improvement right on the spot in real-time. How good is that?

Overall Purpose:
How to make your business meetings as effective as possible.

Specific Content and skills covered.
How to:

Ensure the purpose and content of each meeting are clear.
Have a clear and effective agenda.
Chair effectively.
Stay on point.
Ensure everyone contributes his or her expertise.
Reduce misunderstandings and conflict.
Keep the meetings as short as possible whilst still making the right decisions.
Ensure minutes, agendas, decisions and action lists are clear.
Develop clear, precise meeting procedures and ground rules relevant to your particular meeting.
Ensure everyone, including guests, knows what is expected of them and complies.

Format
The format is customised to the requirements of each team.
It can include:

Rachel's attendance at live meetings for observation.
Feedback during or after a meeting.
Coaching live during the meeting.
Individual coaching for the Chair on how to chair a meeting effectively.
Analysis of agendas and minutes.
Facilitation of discussions to develop specific meeting guidelines.
Workshops on meeting effectiveness with role-plays of meeting activities.
Personality type analysis so the make-up of your team and their strengths are identified.
The provision of checklists for meeting evaluations.
The provision of reports and recommendations.

For example, one possible better meetings programme may be along the lines of:

Step 1: Rachel to observe a meeting for 2 hrs followed by a 2 hr feedback and coaching session. Action steps will be agreed to for the next meeting.
Step 2: Rachel will write up the agreed to steps and meeting guidelines and forward them to the meeting participants.
Step 3: Provision of a 1-1 coaching session for the Chair before the next meeting.
Step 4: Rachel to observe a second meeting for 2 hrs followed by a second 2 hr feedback and coaching session. Further refinements to the meeting guidelines will be agreed to and the need for any further coaching determined.

If you want to have interesting, relevant meetings that stay on track with optimal input from everyone attending, then let Rachel show you how. Just pick up the phone and give us a call right now on:

08 9390 1188

Or if you would rather, please email us and we will respond quickly:

E-mail:

Copyright 2007 RachelGreen.Com Pty Ltd
PO Box 344, Kelmscott, WA 6991 Australia
Phone: +61 8 9390 1188 Fax: +61 8 9390 1199

Updated 25-Jun-2010