What You Will Learn!
- Defining your meeting purpose, objectives, and expected outcomes.
- Identifying the right people to invite, and determining the right format for your meeting.
- Identifying the logistics and developing a clear meeting appointment.
- Developing a clear, sequenced agenda, and any other resources and tools for the meeting.
- Circulating a pre-meeting communication and package to set expectations and prepare your participants.
- Setting up your meeting for success and leading a highly effective discussion.
- Developing meeting minutes, a summary or action log to track the discussion, actions, and next steps.
- Circulating a follow-up meeting communications and package to hold everyone accountable.
- Evaluating your meeting outcomes and process, and applying your lessons learned going forward.
Description
Did you know that high-functioning, effective meetings are a powerful enabler to achieving professional success and achieving your goals and projects?
Meetings are the most common business activity in every industry around the world. They’re also one of the greatest sources of anxiety, frustration and stress and they might be holding you back from achieving success. This is because participants often express that they feel their time isn’t valued, meetings fail to produce valuable results, and you might be missing countless opportunities to advance your projects and demonstrate your skills.
Fortunately, Unleash Your Meeting Potential™ has been designed to set you up for success. This course provides you with all of the knowledge and best practices you need to skillfully plan, lead and follow up on meetings that add significant value each and every time.
WHO will benefit from this course?
If you’re required to lead meetings at work, you’ll find this course is designed for you. Roles such as consultants, project managers, engineers, business analysts, strategists, managers and team leaders, sales or administrative professionals, improvement experts, and students preparing for employment will find this to be for you.
This course reviews all of the key activities to maximize the effectiveness of every meeting. We’ll walk through a simple, straightforward methodology called The 3 Step Meeting Framework™. This approach can be applied to every industry including healthcare, finance, automotive, legal, manufacturing, transportation, construction, research, energy, IT, aerospace, communications, etc.
Upon completion of this course, you will have all of the knowledge you need to transform your meetings, reach a level of meeting mastery, and use these skills to take your projects and career to new heights.
I’ll invite you to watch the free preview videos so that you know the level of detail you’ll get in this program that includes:
Defining your meeting purpose, objectives, and expected outcomes
Identifying and inviting the right people
Selecting the right meeting format to maximize the engagement of your participants
Determining the meeting logistics, and developing a clear meeting appointment
Creating an effective meeting agenda, and setting up your meeting in advance with clear expectations to allow for effective discussions
Leading and facilitating productive meetings with your stakeholders
Documenting key decisions, action items, and next steps in powerful meeting minutes that can be shared
Developing follow-up communications and holding your participants accountable for the identified action items
And much more....
Meet Your Course Instructor
My name is Natalie Berkiw-Scenna. Let me offer you a warm welcome to Unleash Your Meeting Potential™!
I’m a senior-level project management consultant (PMP) and have lead thousands of high-functioning meetings over the last 21 years and counting.
My book Unleash Your Meeting Potential™: A Comprehensive Guide to Leading Effective Meetings is sold by book retailers around the world.
I’ve taught this course material to multiple Masters of Business (MBA) programs at universities and colleges in both Canada and the United States.
I’ve also presented this material as a speaker at various conferences and educational events including the International Project Management Day Conference 2021 put on by the International Institute for Learning.
And, I’ve developed the easy methodology and approach called The 3 Step Meeting Framework™ to save you from years of learning the hard way, and to set you up for success.
Alright, let me ask you: Are you ready to transform your meetings? If your answer is “YES!”, then it’s time to take action. Join me on this journey today! I’ll see you inside the course, and I can’t wait to personally welcome you to the Unleash Your Meeting Potential™ program. See you soon!
Who Should Attend!
- This course is for anyone who is looking to transform their meetings, move their projects and initiatives forward, and advance their career.
