Effective Meetings
For over 20 years we have delivered effective meeting and facilitation skills training to some of the world’s biggest companies. This one-day course will provide you with the skills to run successful meetings with highly proficient facilitation techniques. You will be able to transform ineffective meetings, which waste time and money, into engaging and results-driven sessions. This course will teach you what makes effective facilitation and how to plan a successful session. It will also help you to understand group dynamics and handle confrontation. By the end of the course, you will possess the tools needed to be an effective facilitator and have the confidence to deal with complex issues.
The course takes 2-5 hours to complete and is worth 5 CPD points.
This training is suitable for anyone who runs meetings and workshops or is responsible for problem-solving, those looking to inspire their team, engage project members and change processes and individuals looking to improve their confidence and creativity while also developing their presentation skills.
Learning Objectives
- Have practical experience in using important facilitation techniques
- Understand the dynamics of meetings and workshops
- Develop your own style of successful facilitation
- Know how to structure and run successful meetings, generating positive relationships and encouraging commitment from others
Communication Courses
Active Listening
This Active Listening Skills course will help you improve your listening skills to build more positive and productive relationships, resolve conflicts and solve problems in the workplace and beyond.
Reading Body Language as a Sales Tool
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Body Language for Facilitators
Body language is key to our communication, often revealing much more than what we say and how we say it. Those who are in tune to this type of communication are able to get the most out of meetings and conversations.
Communication Skills
Communication is so essential to our success, but many of us are unwittingly giving the world a message that we'd rather not. By completing this short course, you can gain insight into what you could improve on, and build a plan that's tailored to you.
Conflict Resolution and Personal Safety
This half hour course aims to provide delegates with the knowledge to deal with conflict in the workplace and manage their own personal safety.
Effective Meetings
This course will teach you what makes effective facilitation and how to plan a successful session. It will also help you to understand group dynamics and handle confrontation.
Giving and Receiving Feedback
The thought of feedback can often be frightening, both for those providing it and those receiving it. Given untactfully or taken badly, it can be demotivating and damage working relationships.
Influencing Skills
Possessing good influencing skills means that you will also have good communication and interpersonal skills. These skills are extremely valuable when working in a team because you will need others to want to give you their help and support, rather than being forced into doing so.
Interviewing Skills
Attending an interview is always nerve-wracking, even if you're confident you have the skills to do the work. Just because you know you can do the job and would be a great fit at the company, doesn't mean the interviewer will think the same.
Negotiation Skills
This course has been designed by experienced Business Improvement experts and covers all the major aspects of negotiation skills. As well as gaining confidence in using different negotiation styles, the Negotiation Skills course will teach you the best ways to reach satisfactory agreements plus methods on dealing with difficult or unjust tactics.
Networking for Success
Networking is not about making a hard sell, it's about building relationships and being genuinely interested in helping people. The prospect of networking may be daunting to some, which is why we have designed this course to help people how to network, develop their networking skills and build their confidence in talking to others.
Presentation Skills
One of the keys to great presentation skills is confidence. This course will guide you on the integral elements of what makes an engaging presentation as well as showing you techniques to improve your skills and tips for overcoming nerves.