Meeting Excellence

Meetings are an essential part of running an organisation. And your ability to organise effective and efficient meetings is a key part of your success as a team leader and as a productive leader.

• Stop wasting time and money.

• Involve and engage people.

• Follow words with deeds.

• Turn meetings into team building opportunities.

• Conduct high-energy meetings.

When meetings are a waste of time and money.

A 2012 salary.com survey of 3,200 people in companies found that 47 per cent of respondents believed that ‘meetings are the worst waste of time’. Many would agree: the most productive people would rather work than attend meetings.

Remember: if meetings are a waste of time, they are also a waste of money. If you have 5 people in a one-hour meeting, that’s 5 hours of work, i.e. a cost (5 hours) x (€ wage/hour)! And things get worse for larger meetings.

So if you, as a leader …

… you spend most of the day in meetings and most of the night working,

… you feel trapped in pointless meetings,

… you see that people are disengaged or unprepared during the meeting,

… you notice that people talk too much and get off track during the meeting,

… you experience too little challenge or too much conflict in your meetings,

… you experience that the energy of meetings is low and people get tired or bored,

… you always have people arriving late,

… you find that people don’t follow up their words with action after the meeting,

… then the ‘ Meeting Excellence’ training is for you!

“Anything more than 25% of the time spent in meetings is a sign of disorganisation”.

– Peter Drucker, eminent American business author

And when meetings are a source of success.

The truth is that meetings can be the best opportunity for team building, if you know how to manage them!

You, as a Productive Team Leader, want your meetings to be time efficient, straight to the point and energetic. You want people to participate fully, be engaged and do their best, before, during and after the meeting. You want team-players to be responsible, motivated and follow words with deeds.

In the “Meeting Excellence” training, we will guide you through a clear, step-by-step system you can follow to lead successful meetings, help you overcome the most common obstacles leaders face in running meetings, and teach you how to overcome the specific challenges you are facing in your own experience.

The “Meeting Excellence” training comes from the experience of leading inefficient meetings and efficient meetings and was inspired by the study of how excellent meetings are conducted in large companies such as Amazon, Facebook, P&G and many others.

Duration.

The ‘Meeting Excellence’ training is a 3-day intensive course.