Effective Meeting Skills for Better and Productive Meetings

Let's get straight to the point: in 50% of the cases, your presence at a meeting is a waste of time. This also applies to online meetings. With an efficient approach, we can certainly get that percentage up.

In this course we will go deeper into the strong advantages of an online meeting and look at which facets of regular meetings also apply to online meetings. The goal remains to arrive at efficient meetings with a concrete result.

During this interactive and practice-oriented online course the following learning points will be covered:

How to get the most out of online meetings?
Which online meeting techniques to use best?
Rules for efficient meetings
Determine and formulate the purpose of a meeting
Best practices before, during and after the meeting
How can you positively influence the course and effectiveness of group discussions by maximizing engagement and involvement?
Choosing the best online meeting tool
Pitfalls in online meetings: things to avoid
Meeting roles: chairman, timekeeper, secretary, participant
How to deal with emotions, tensions or conflicts in a meeting?
Tips for concrete agreements (for follow-up, next steps and feedback)
Business simulation game : the training ends with a simulated meeting game

This training is aimed at anyone who regularly participates in meetings and who wishes to increase the productivity of these online business meetings. More specifically, this training can be useful for managers, team leaders, project managers, all sales profiles, professional employees and executives.

This training is maximally practice-oriented and the techniques provided are immediately applied via interactive online exercises. These practice sessions and simulations are discussed afterwards by the trainer and the participants.

The training is given via ZOOM, using all the possibilities of this tool. The tips are, of course, also applicable to the other online systems.

The "Online meetings" course gives you insight into your strengths and points for improvement in the field of meetings. From now on, you will know how to make your meetings effective and how to exert more influence on the course of a meeting.

You will learn during this practical training course:
What steps are needed to achieve an efficient meeting
Planning an efficient meeting with concrete results
Conducting meetings to keep them structured and to-the-point
Useful tips and techniques for using breakout rooms, whiteboard, sharing screens etc...
How to deal with emotions and conflicts in a meeting
Dealing with resistance and difficult behaviour

This training is also available as personal coaching, in-company training or compact workshop.

Contact us for more information.

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