Making Meetings Meaningful

Benefits for Staff

This program will assist participants to effectively conduct meetings, including both internal and external meetings, with other Council staff, community groups or other stakeholders of Council.

By attending this training participants will learn:

• How to gain greater success from their meetings, by effectively planning and managing meetings
• How to facilitate and promote discussion among meeting participants
• How to undertake group-based problem solving and decision making in a meeting
• How to use meeting agendas and minutes to support effective meetings
• How to manage conflict / a divergence of opinions in meetings
• The nature of consultation and the distinction between participative decision making and information sharing

Overview

This training emphasises 'components for success'. That is, linking meeting purpose with meeting outcomes and the processes and skills required to achieve this link including:

1. Processes
   • Planning (including meeting objectives and meeting preparation, eg agendas)
   • Conducting meetings
   • Evaluating meeting outcomes
   • Consultation / information sharing
   
   
2. Skills
   • Facilitating and managing discussion / participation
   • Managing diverse opinions and conflict within meetings
   • Assertive communication skills (including how to communicate in a non-aggressive manner)
   • Facilitating group-based problem solving or decision making

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