Take Control Of Unruly Meetings

Elevate your meetings from chaotic to collaborative with our well-honed meeting facilitation techniques.

What you'll learn

Understand when to hold a meeting (and what to do instead)

Plan an effective meeting by creating an informative invite, appropriate agenda and identifying key attendees using a repeatable framework

Recognize the five difficult meeting behavior archetypes that can derail meetings: Watchers, Off-Trackers, Know-It-Alls, Naysayers and Repeaters

Learn how to best engage each meeting behavior archetype to leverage their strengths and talents to make your meetings productive

Requirements

No meeting experience required! We will review fundamentals and then jump into insights useful to anyone.

Description

Do your meetings go off track due to lack of preparation, the wrong people in the room or distracting personalities?  Are there people who don't contribute when they should? People who talk too much, overwhelming everyone else in the room? Do you end your meetings frustrated that you didn't accomplish what you set out to do?We're lifelong program managers of complex technology and business programs who will share how we've led successful technology projects by facilitating productive meetings.By the end of the course you will:Be prepared to maintain control of the room through a well planned meeting with the right people in the room. We'll share meeting templates that will make you look good and ensure essential contributors attend and engage in your meeting.Recognize typical meeting detractors who throw off meetings — the Watcher, the Off-Tracker, the Naysayer, the Know-It-All, and the Repeater. Our students see these archetypes in themselves and others, and become better contributors and facilitators with this knowledge.Redirect detractors by leveraging their strengths using facilitation techniques we've honed from years of leading potentially unruly meetings. We provide facilitation tips and tricks that you can use immediately.You have the power tactfully and gracefully maintain (or regain) control of your meetings!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Welcome! Who we are and why we know this stuff.

Lecture 2 What will you learn in this course?

Lecture 3 Why you should care.

Section 2: Why Bother to Hold a Meeting?

Lecture 4 Section Overview

Lecture 5 Why shouldn't you hold a meeting?

Lecture 6 Meeting alternatives

Section 3: Plan an Effective Meeting

Lecture 7 Section Overview

Lecture 8 Plan meetings with CLEAR meeting prep

Lecture 9 The importance of the meeting invite

Lecture 10 The agenda

Lecture 11 Modeling good behavior

Section 4: Recognize Archetypical Behaviors in Yourself and Others

Lecture 12 Section Overview

Lecture 13 Ground rules for meetings

Lecture 14 Archetype overview

Section 5: Advanced Skills in Managing Unruly Behavior

Lecture 15 Section Overview

Lecture 16 What expert meeting leadership looks like

Lecture 17 General tips to keep control of the room

Lecture 18 The flip side of archetypes

Lecture 19 Strengths and meeting tips for the Deep Thinker

Lecture 20 Strengths and meeting tips for the Connecter

Lecture 21 Strengths and meeting tips for the Expert

Lecture 22 Strengths and meeting tips for the Questioner

Lecture 23 Strengths and meeting tips for the Synthesizer

Lecture 24 Creating a safe space

Lecture 25 Meeting follow-up

Section 6: Wrapping It Up

Lecture 26 Course recap

Lecture 27 What's next?

Lecture 28 Thank you and goodbye!

Mid-career professionals who struggle to keep meetings on track,Meeting leaders who face strong personalities and seek to become more savvy meeting facilitators,Project Managers, Product Managers and Marketing Managers who lead problem-solving meetings that tend to get unruly,Anyone looking to improve meeting preparation