Training course, seminar: Hosting and facilitating effective meetings
How to lead result-oriented meetings.
Meetings are essential in business, but they can become one of the biggest time wasters in an organization. Therefore, facilitation skills are increasingly important for employees, managers and specialists. Running meetings via online tools like Skype offers great opportunities – and poses particular challenges.
Seminar objectives:
- Plan and facilitate meetings to achieve results
- Ensure clarity regarding reasons for meetings
- Achieve aims and secure sustainable results in your meetings
- Deal with conflict, obstructions or “difficult people”
You will plan the concrete contents of your coaching together with your coach to make sure that the coaching meets your needs and expectations exactly. The seminar will be a mixture of theory and extensive practical exercises to ensure transfer and reflection of the material learned.
In-house seminars with content tailored to your needs:
In-house seminars with content tailored to your needs:
Preparation
- Before starting the course, participants fill in an online questionnaire and receive preparatory material.
- Participants identify challenges they have experienced dealing with stakeholders, perhaps also from different countries, with varying levels of expertise in speaking English.
Contents
- The sense of facilitation and the role of the facilitator
- Phase model for facilitation and agendas
- Models for consensus-oriented decision processes
- Detailed planning – developing a script for your meeting
- Securing results and delegating tasks
- Dos and Don’ts of meeting facilitation
- Group dynamic aspects and avoiding conflicts
- Intervention strategies for disturbances and conflicts
Methods
- Interactive group discussions about challenging scenarios, reasons and effective resolutions
- Practical interactive role play scenarios
- Group exercises
Handbook, quick reference cards and seminar service
- Detailed seminar handbook and handouts with exercises
- A5 quick reference cards as a brief summary
- Supplementary material and photographic minutes by email
- Support after the seminar: simply by email or using the Knowledge Blog – participants are welcome to ask questions and request tips after the seminar
Seminar documents, manual, reference cards and service for your time management seminar
- Detailed seminar manual or seminar documents with exercises. Seminar documents with exercises,
- Short reference card in DIN A5 format for a quick overview,
- Additional material and PDF photo protocol by email,
- Support after the time management training: Simply by email or via the knowledge blog - participants can also ask questions and request tips after the seminar.
Your communications skills trainer:
Uwe Freund: Communication trainer, coach, text optimiser. Uwe Freund has been supporting companies since 1989 as a communication trainer, speaker, coach and consultant for business writing skills and complaint management by letter, email, chat and social media as well as time management, telephone dialogue and presentation.
He advises companies in German-speaking countries on the redesign of written and verbal communication as well as the concrete implementation through text optimisation of templates, building blocks and templates. His industry expertise focuses on financial services, insurance, law firms and law firms, automotive, IT and software, clothing/fashion. Uwe Freund lives in Munich.
- Studies: Politics, German Studies and Psychology in Frankfurt am Main and Munich - Degree: M. A. (Magister/Master)
- Qualifications: Certified coach based on transactional analysis; further training: Gestalt, NLP, TCI, conflict management, group dynamics, physiology and sports training methodology, energetic psychology (MPC), INSIGHTS MDI (accredited counsellor), Lumina Spark (accredited counsellor)
- Seminar languages: German, English
- Seminar topics: Written communication and business writing such as letters and emails, live chat, professional formulation and copywriting, telephone dialogue, customer service and complaint management, time management and productivity, pyramid style presentations, presentation, facilitation
- Memberships: BJV Bayerischer Journalistenverband / German Journalists' Association, DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V. / German Standardisation Organisation (member of the working committee "Text and information processing for office applications")
Your communications skills trainer:
Cameron Paul studied German, French and Japanese in New Zealand. During his master's degree, he specialised in translation into his native language, English.
After his certification, he worked as a trainer in New Zealand, Japan, France and England and now lives and works as a communication trainer in the Munich area.
For more than 25 years he has been supporting companies, individuals and groups as a trainer, coach and mediator on topics such as professional communication, conflict management, group dynamics and decision-making processes.
Particular areas of expertise include the automotive industry (technology and management development), the chemical industry (diagnostics, biochemistry and silicone technology), lighting and electronics, software development for safety systems, psychology and psychotherapy, group leadership.
- Qualifications: Master (M. A.) in French Literature and Translation; Bachelor (B. A.) in German, French and Japanese; Numerous advanced training courses in the areas of training, group dynamics and personal development
- Activities: Communication trainer, coach and mediator, Psychological counsellor, Training in written communication skills in English
- Seminar languages: English, German, French