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Course profile: Chairing Reviews and Meetings

Not everyone is a ‘natural’ at chairing meetings, however there are basic skills that everyone can master to more effectively perform this task.

This course aims to enable participants to plan and chair effective and well structured meetings and reviews

Learning objectives:

By the end of the course learners should have:

• Identified key points for good preparation and planning
• Understood the role of the chair person
• Identified strategies for keeping order and adhering to the agenda
• Formulated strategies for handling problems in meetings and reviews

Course content:

• Knowing your aims
• Choosing the right type of meeting
• Keeping on track
• Preparing an agenda
• Preparing practicalities
• Being seen and heard
• Taking minutes
• Handling problems
• Understanding the role of the chairperson
• Pacing the meeting
• Keeping order
• Closing a meeting
• Formal Procedures
• Problems that arise in formal meetings

Training methods:

• Direct teaching             • Group Discussion
• Exercises                    • Role Play                        • Handouts

 

 

 

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