Running Great Meetings and Workshops For Dummies

Learn to: Plan effective group sessions Develop agendas that deliver Improve your ability to lead meetings Facilitate workshops that provide real value Make your workshops and meetings amazing with this hands–on guide If you run meetings or workshops but need to take your game to the next level, this book is for you! Get the tools youll need to facilitate engaging, productive group sessions with this comprehensive guide. Dive in to topics like planning, starting and facilitating meetings to become a great meeting leader today! Prepare for success get the details of what makes a good meeting go bad and find out how to plan your meetings and workshops to make them engaging Deliver great group sessions make sure your meetings get off to a good start, outline an agenda, create ground rules and find out how to troubleshoot difficult situations Build your skills dig into techniques for facilitating great meetings, running focus groups and handling remote meetings or workshops Master key techniques and best practices get a firm grasp of the techniques that top meeting facilitators always use Open the book and find: Information on what to do when running a meeting Tips for developing a plan and managing people Tricks to get your meetings off to a great start Hints for dealing with typical meeting difficulties Ways to build participants knowledge Techniques for facilitating remote meetings

Jessica Pryce–Jones and Julia Lindsay are joint CEOs of the iOpener Institute for People and Performance, an international consultancy headquartered in Oxford, UK. iOpener helps organisations achieve their commercial goals and makes this happen with great meetings and workshops. Over the past 10 years, iOpener has delivered approximately 15,000 workshops world–wide.