Most people consider meetings the bane of their existence – pulling them away from meaningful work. They make sure they have their phone to check email, texts, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn or even shipping dates on Amazon.This webinar helps you facilitate meetings that matter. With this instruction, you will avoid meetings can are considered a total waste of time. Your meetings will have a clear purpose not, “We’re having a meeting because we always meet on Monday morning.”They will be properly planned and executed with purpose and energy, focused on needs, objectives, and solutions.You’ll learn not only to manage the logistics of the meeting but how to facilitate opinions, surface the truth about issues, and bring opposing viewpoints together for solid decisions. Plus, you’ll get tips facilitation tips for starting the meeting, assigning roles, handling sticky situations when personalities begin pushing personal agendas or trying to dominate the conversation.If you are serious about getting results every time you hold a meeting, this is a “must-attend” webinar. You’ll produce an effective meeting that is not one minute longer than it needs to be, releasing attendees to get back to critical task production and fulfilling assignments made in the meeting.Learning ObjectivesThe most important skill for an effective 21st-century manager is the ability to facilitate effective meetings. The objectives of this webinar are to:Review the requirements for a successful meetingGain a clear definition of the role of a facilitator in meetingsDiscover how facilitation skills foster teamwork and build moraleLearn how to use core facilitation tools and techniques.Develop skills to handle conflict in the meetingBe able to overcome resistance and build buy-in to goals and objectivesTopic BackgroundMeetings present a dichotomy: they are essential to group work yet many attendees rate them as ineffective and a waste of time. Attend this webinar and never get a low score on your meeting again.We will discuss how to: Get all meeting attendees to participateHave meeting participants prepared to presentStart and end on timeProduce meetings attendees find effectiveAfter attending this live webinar you will be able to: Determine the What and WHY for any proposed meetingWrite an agenda that captures the needs of the groupHandle all the logistics for the meetingConduct a productive meetingImprove the process of how the meeting flowsEnsure results at the end of the meetingMake a plan for the follow up on assignmentsClose the meeting effectively