Facilitating Effective Meetings

This class is offered in a highly participatory live-online format.

Ineffective meetings come with a high price, costing organizations billions each year in lost productivity and wasted time. This course gives you the powerful facilitation skills to transform meetings into purposeful, results-driven sessions that maximize team efficiency. You’ll learn how to set clear agendas, manage productive discussions, address challenging participants, and confidently tackle complex topics. Equipped with essential tools, templates, and models, you’ll build trust, boost teamwork, and lead meetings with measurable success. Elevate your meetings and make each one a valuable investment in your team’s success.

Desired learning outcomes:

By the end of this session, the participant should be able to:

1. Apply a variety of meeting tools and templates to help their meeting remain focused on its work and achieve its goals.
2. Discuss the role of the meeting leader/facilitator in guiding the work of a meeting.
3. Describe and demonstrate methods and tools for:
   • Encouraging participation
   • Equalizing participation
   • Keeping the meeting on task
   • Managing conflict and disagreement
   • Dealing with disruptive behaviors
4. Describe meeting consensus and demonstrate methods for both sensing and achieving consensus around important meeting decisions.
5. Discuss the importance of periodically evaluating meeting effectiveness.

Continuing Studies is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP®.

By participating in this class you will earn:

Explanation of Continuing Education Hours