Meeting Skills
Does your company or organization struggle with unclear meeting agendas, going off topic, misunderstandings, people talking too much or too little, not paying attention, arriving late, leaving early, and difficulty in reaching conclusions?
When you add up the cost of each person attending an inefficient meeting, what does that amount to? And how does the frustration that people feel from unproductive meetings impact their work and contribution to your business?
The word “facilitate” comes from the Latin “facilis,” which means easy. It’s the facilitator’s role to make it EASY for everyone to achieve the meeting objectives. I help them to do that by using fundamental facilitation skills. I also teach techniques to address problems that arise during meetings and get everyone back on track for meaningful results.
Choose from two options for meeting skills training (or contact me for tailored training):
- Meaningful Meetings and Conference Calls – 8-hour workshop
- Meaningful Meetings and Conference Calls – 2 x 3-hour sessions
Meaningful Meetings and Conference Calls – 8-hour workshop
Overview
In this workshop, participants learn the fundamentals of global meeting facilitation and build personal presence and confidence. Content includes
- gaining alignment
- clarifying meeting goals, roles, and ways to proceed
- brainstorming
- decision making
- optimizing the meeting venue and equipment
- dealing with difficult situations (e.g., people speaking too much or too little, going off topic, differences of opinion, people arriving late or leaving early)
Duration
8 hours, including one hour for lunch and two 15-minute breaks
Participants
Maximum 8 (take presentation skills training first for best results)
In our company, we have close collaboration with colleagues based in our global headquarters. So effective English communication is critical to our day-to-day operations, yet a challenge for most of the Japanese colleagues.
Helen understands what effective English communication in the global business consists of – going beyond language skills to include building trust, managing perception, and such. She incorporates these elements in the training with concrete tactics so that my team members have clear ideas of how to tackle them.
I highly recommend Sasuga! training to those who seek to gain advanced global communication skills beyond language skills.
Meaningful Meetings and Conference Calls – 2 x 3-hour sessions
Overview
The objectives and content of this option are the same as for the 8-hour workshop above. Some clients prefer this option of two sessions of three hours each because it may be easier to schedule than a full day. This option also gives participants the opportunity to put what they learned into practice in the first session and build on it in the second.
Duration
2 x 3-hour sessions, including a 15-minute break, scheduled 1-2 weeks apart
Participants
Maximum 8 (take presentation skills training first for best results)