Transforming Business Meetings

All IT managers, team leaders and team members who have responsibility for achieving results through people.

This course will

• develop your capacity to run and contribute to great team meetings
• help you to understand their own behaviour, the behaviour of others
• Identify how your habitual behaviour determines the success of any team in dealing with complexity problems.
• Give you practical techniques to make your own contribution to meetings more effective and to get the most out of other team members.

An open mind and the motivation to learn.

THE COURSE

Any complex project requires teamwork and at the heart of teamwork are the meetings and conversations that allow team members to share information, diagnose problems and create solutions. This course will develop the participants capacity to run and contribute to great team meetings. The course helps participants to understand their own behaviour, the behaviour of others and how habitual behaviour determines the success of any team in dealing with complexity problems. The course will give participants practical techniques to make their own contribution to meetings more effective and to get the most out of other team members. The techniques delivered in this course will help you run meetings that are more focused, more creative and result in action. The style of this course is both participative and practical. Delegates take an active part in simulations and projects which recreate in a training environment the key aspects of the interactions in meetings.

The techniques delivered in this course will help you run meetings that are more focused, more creative and result in action.

The style of this course is both participative and practical. Delegates take an active part in simulations and projects which recreate in a training environment the key aspects of the interactions in meetings.

COURSE TOPICS

MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP

• Some Definitions
• What is Managing People Effectively?
• Understanding the Difference between Management and Leadership
• Understanding Effectiveness & Efficiency

MANAGEMENT STYLE

• Understanding Different Styles of Management in Relation to their Effectiveness
• Morale and Efficiency
• Understanding the Hierarchy of Needs Model
• Balancing Concern for Task against Concern for People
• Getting Commitment through Involvement
• Understanding the Compliance Mentality Releasing Discretionary Effort in Your Team
• Building a Proactive Management Style

DEVELOPING A PROACTIVE CHARACTER

• What do You Want to Achieve?
• Moving from Dependency to Inter-Dependency
• Pro-activity and Re-activity
• Forward Thinking
• Overcoming Obstacles
• Using the Force-Field Analysis
• Developing a Make-it-Happen Attitude
• Roles and Goals
• What are Your Values?
• Defining Your Mission
• The Key Principles of Effective Time-Management
• Understanding Importance and Urgency
• Managing the Urgency Addiction

DEVELOPING A WINNING PERSONALITY

• Cultivating the Right Attitude of Mind
• Abundance and Scarcity Mentalities
• A Complete Model for Effective Human Interaction
• Looking for Solutions
• Always Finding Solutions that Benefit Everyone
• The Effect of Imbalance
• Getting Your Life into Balance
• Maintaining Balance
• What is Stress?
• Fight or Flight Response
• Stress Management

CULTIVATING EFFECTIVE TEAMWORK

• Building Positive Teamwork
• Involving People
• Developing Personal Motivation
• Encouraging Individual Responsibility
• Giving Enthusiastic Leadership
• Ensuring Clear Communications
• Different Ways of Thinking
• Parallel Thinking
• The Six Thinking Hats Framework
• Group Dynamics
• Information Overload
• The Adair Needs Model
  

PUTTING IT INTO PRACTICE

• The Action Plan

 

There are no exams with this course