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Meetings, Bloody Meetings:

Making Meetings More Productive

2 hours - valid for 6 months

Course Cost (excl. VAT): £34.99

Introduction

A recent survey found that the average worker spends 5.6 hours each week in meetings, yet 69% of workers felt that meetings weren’t productive! This course has been designed to help businesses minimise wasted time, money and human resource by making meetings more productive.

Meetings, Bloody Meetings: Making Meetings More Productive is structured around a series of engaging video clips featuring John Cleese and Robert Hardy and gives a valuable introduction to the skills needed to run efficient, effective meetings. Key messages are delivered with simplicity and impact to make the learning more memorable and to ensure the meeting experience is as productive, informative and motivating as possible.

Source [1]: Microsoft Office Survey 2005

Who is the course for?

Meetings, Bloody Meetings: Making Meetings More Productive is an ideal course for any staff member who might be expected to organise and chair meetings. It will help them to plan, control and record meetings more effectively and professionally.

This course is appropriate for any business sector, there are no formal entry requirements and employees do not need any prior experience.

What will you get from this course?

When you have completed this course, you will be able to:

Recognise the characteristics of a good meeting
Understand the importance of planning and overcome common planning problems
Create an effective meeting agenda
Prioritise agenda items and allocate time appropriately
Manage and control a meeting as the chair
Successfully record the notes of a meeting

Course features

Famous faces including John Cleese and Robert Hardy will show you how to make business meetings more productive. In a vivid nightmare, a hapless manager stands trial in court for a catalogue of meeting misdemeanours: failing to prepare himself, failing to plan the agenda, failing to control the discussion and failing to record the decisions. By demonstrating the chaos that would ensue if he ran his court in a similar fashion, the furious judge finds the accused guilty on all counts.

As the judge considers the evidence, you’ll recognise some common meeting mistakes and understand how to correct them. The familiar settings and witty role play will help you to apply the material to your own workplace.

Before you begin you’ll take a short test to help identify any knowledge gaps. As you work through the course you’ll be presented with simple exercises to check your learning.

You can start the course straight away and access it at any time, providing you have the use of a computer with an internet connection. The course is available for six months from the date first accessed.