Effective Meeting Skills

This programme is available In-House and currently delivered through virtual classroom training. We all know that meetings are a valuable and necessary way to collaborate and draw on the best of what all employees can offer to progress the aims and objectives of the organisation. Using this time in the most efficient way possible is a critical business skill. Recent surveys of office employees determined that on average four hours of their working time per week was spent in meetings. This figure doubled for managers and supervisors. They all estimated that over half this time was unproductive and wasted. In our programme we will show you how to build the skills necessary to ensure that all meetings you lead are productive, effective and get the best from all those who participate.

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Course Code
LPD004

What's covered?

  • Key Principles and best practise when it comes to managing meetings
  • How to begin with purpose and contracting with participants for success
  • How to set realistic agendas which keep engagement and focus
  • Which roles are key to ensuring effective contributions and productivity
  • How to encourage open discussion for more participation and commitment
  • How to manage situations and behaviour which can disrupt and create disharmony
  • How to summarise and close effectively ensuring actions are allocated and commitments made

Who should participate?

Anyone interested in understanding or improving their own or others participation in or management of meetings.

What will I learn?

Participants achieve the following learning outcomes from the programme;

  • Understand the key skills and techniques required to manage meetings effectively
  • Identify and understand those key roles which make up effective meetings and how to ensure these contribute to good meeting process and output
  • Recognise the situations and behaviours which can undermine successful meetings and understand and practise how best to deal with these
  • Consider and reflect on your individual development and action plans required to ensure successful meeting process and outputs

Who are the tutors?

Gina Ryan

Gina Ryan has over thirty years’ experience in people management and entrepreneurship, across the telecommunications and food industry, with a particular focus on employee engagement and development, and excellence in customer service. An experienced and qualified coach, Gina is passionate about continuous professional development. Over a number of years Gina has facilitated the professional growth and development of individuals from a diverse range of backgrounds: from community leaders, academic institutions, pharma, food production to data processing, maintenance and contact centres. Gina establishes rapport and credibility with clients from the first interaction – and co-creates the environment to allow clients to affect real change in their organisation.

Clients find her facilitation style to be motivating, powerful and instrumental in finding a depth of understanding and clarity on their own issues, while at the same time maintaining control of the options they choose to follow, and the actions they design; in essence using the learning environment to custom build the skills and answers to their own specific needs. As someone who facilitates development on the basis of experiential learning, nothing is offered to the learners that Gina has not had experience of achieving success with in the workplace.

Gina holds a QQI Award in Coaching through LIT Thurles and is a member of the ICF (International Coach Federation), she has also been invited to mentor on this course. She also holds Diplomas in L&D Principles and IT and CIPD (Certification in Personnel Management Practice) through UL, and has Associate Membership of CIPD.  She was a mentor on the Certificate in Coaching Skills Course in LIT Thurles for three years

Gina has recently completed the “Diploma in Mindfulness Teacher Training and Positive Psychology (Irish Mindfulness Academy) at the Marino Institute of Education.” The establishment of Mindfulness skills as a tool to enable individuals to build resilience, agility and design options for themselves in both work and life has been evolving over the last decade in workplaces globally. Building on the bedrock of Positive Psychology Gina supports learners as they apply these concepts in their own lives to create real and sustainable benefits, on both a personal and professional level. Gina has also recently completed a Professional Diploma in Digital Learning Design (GCU)


How do we train and support you?

Building on over 30 years’ experience in human resource learning and development; the Tutor utilizes an experiential learning approach to their programmes.  This methodology of learning provides an opportunity for learners to engage with, experience and apply the learning in a practical way and also provides the opportunity for learners to receive feedback on their newly applied skills.  The opportunity is also provided to learners to reflect on the full learning experience and how this might be of value to them in the achievement of their learning goals.

To assist and continue with skills development, we facilitate via email a post learning reflective practice utilising skills practice sessions recorded during the course. This assists delegates in embedding new learning, gives further support and enables them to define any further actions required.

This programme offers one to one or group coaching as an additional element to further support the delegate and embed the learning process.

Gina Ryan

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