This course will teach you how to lead productive, engaging meetings.
This course will teach you how to lead productive, engaging meetings. You’ll explore how to implement best practices while encouraging participation and generating trust among attendees. Finally, you’ll define the importance of remaining flexible, neutral, and assertive as you lead meetings in a collaborative space. After completing this course, you’ll understand how to prepare to facilitate a meeting by understanding the goals and knowing your audience. You’ll also gain understanding of the difference between managing and facilitating meetings, how to apply best practices for optimal effectiveness and efficiency, and how to encourage collaboration among participants with different voices and opinions. The skills that you will learn in this course will help you to maximize the productivity of the meetings that you facilitate.
Learning Objectives
- Know the difference between managing and facilitating meetings
- Apply best practices for effective meeting facilitation
- Understand the qualities that will make you an efficient meeting leader
- Manage meetings by being open with your team and encouraging collaboration
- Learn to apply active listening to ensure that everyone is heard and understood
Skills you’ll gain
Collaborative LearningDiscussion FacilitationMeeting FacilitationWorkshop FacilitationCertified Meeting ProfessionalFacilitator CertificationWhat You'll Learn
- Distinguish between managing and facilitating meetings
- Apply best practices for effective and efficient meeting facilitation
- Prepare to facilitate by understanding meeting goals and knowing your audience
- Encourage participation and collaboration among attendees with different voices and opinions
- Practice active listening to ensure everyone is heard and understood
- Remain flexible, neutral, and assertive while leading meetings in a collaborative space
Key Takeaways
- Leading productive, engaging meetings depends on implementing best practices while encouraging participation and generating trust among attendees.
- Managing a meeting and facilitating a meeting are different, and effective facilitators know the distinction.
- Preparing to facilitate means understanding the meeting's goals and knowing your audience.
- Remaining flexible, neutral, and assertive helps a facilitator lead meetings in a collaborative space.
- Applying active listening and suspending bias help ensure that everyone is heard, understood, and trusted.
Frequently Asked Questions
What will I learn in the Facilitating Meetings Series?
You will learn how to lead productive, engaging meetings by implementing best practices, encouraging participation, and generating trust among attendees. The course covers the difference between managing and facilitating meetings, the qualities of an efficient meeting leader, and how to apply active listening and encourage collaboration.
How does this course distinguish managing from facilitating meetings?
The course teaches you to know the difference between managing and facilitating meetings, and covers managing meetings by being open with your team and encouraging collaboration.
What skills does this course help me build?
It builds skills in collaborative learning, discussion facilitation, meeting facilitation, and workshop facilitation, and relates to facilitator certification and the Certified Meeting Professional credential.
What qualities does the course say make an effective facilitator?
The course emphasizes being well-prepared and flexible, focused and engaged, neutral and open, and assertive but not authoritarian, along with practicing active listening, suspending bias, and fostering team contributions.
How is the course structured?
The series moves from an Introduction through topics such as Managing or Facilitating, Ideal Situations and Best Practices, facilitator qualities, and encouraging participation, with Test Your Knowledge checkpoints and a Conclusion.
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Welcome to KnowledgeCity Course Facilitating Meetings. Is your organization getting the most out of its meetings? Are those meetings being run effectively? Just because your company, department or team holds meetings regularly, doesn't mean the valuable time spent in those sessions is being used productively. The time your employees spend around the conference table, can yield much better results, if your meetings are led by facilitators, skilled in active listening, creativity, and collaboration. By having well-trained facilitators, you can maximize the time spent in the meetings, and increase your team success. After completing this course, you'll understand the best practices for effective meeting facilitation, the essential characteristics of a good facilitator and a range of strategies to help your drive results. Let's get started.
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