HOW TO RUN GOOD MEETINGS IN CORPORATE SETTINGS

 Corporate training sessions prove to be effective when they are properly planned and executed. The following is an outline of a well-structured training sessions that may help leaders and their staff to improve in running more effective meetings:

 

What is a good meeting and how much should be invested in making your meetings better?

-          Definition of a good meeting and why productivity soars when meetings become efficient

-          Review of the New York Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/guides/business/how-to-run-an-effective-meeting

-          Review of the Harvard Business Review (Harvard University): https://hbr.org/1976/03/how-to-run-a-meeting

 

The importance of cancelling unnecessary meetings:

-          How to identify unnecessary meetings

-          How to cancel an unnecessary meeting

 

Meeting agenda’s Do’s and Don’ts

-          Is having an agenda important? Is an introduction and recap at the end important?

-          Who should be in control of agenda and why

-          How to collect feedback from all involved parties on the proposed agenda

-          Who should be responsible for taking meeting minutes and what are the best practices for note taking?

 

Making decisions at meetings

-          Steps of a decision process and different types of decision-making processes including collective decisions and ‘boss’ decisions

-          Assigning task responsibilities or action items post meetings and determining responsible parties

-          Review of the following article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/11-ways-run-effective-meetings-so-you-can-get-your-day-betty-liu

 

AllaVolodina  (York University Rate My Prof) suggested this outline and she also has other helpful outlines that could be used for training at corporate level. AllaVolodina teaches at universities various financial accounting subjects.