Meetings should bring people together to collaborate, and to get work done. Teams that operate in a trust-based environment outperform those with low trust. Meeting leaders need to lead with authenticity, be able to deal with difficult situations, and empower the group to achieve the meeting’s objectives.
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Meeting Models - Purpose
- Introduce an additional range of topics that will interest anyone involved in meetings, but particularly meeting leaders, wanting to create great meeting environments and experiences that are positive and productive.
Meeting Models - Objectives
- Understand your current state of meeting maturity to determine where you could be, and how you’d get there.
- Consider how others see you, and influence how they might describe you, by developing your own Personal Brand.
- Review your specific strengths and weaknesses to improve your presence in any professional circumstance.
- Explore Stephen Covey’s Trust Matrix, and consider the impact of trust on meeting performance.
- Assess whether your meetings are people; ideas; results; or power driven, and why it matters.
- Investigate how the group dynamics shapes the way people interact, communicate, collaborate, and cooperate in a meeting.
- Evaluate the tendencies of dominant participants, how to confront them, and the risks of leaving them unchallenged.
Meeting Models - Outcomes
- An appreciation of the additional skills and competences required by meeting leaders, and (hopefully) a desire to investigate at least some of these areas in more detail.