Pre Gathering Course

Meetings that Work

Design and Facilitate Effective Meetings

January 12, 2017 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM to January 13, 2017 8:30 AM to noon

Trainer: Bill Staples

In today’s world of increased workloads, truncated timelines and demands for employee participation, we need group decisions made quickly, positively and with reduced frustration. We also need to ensure that meetings are effective, efficient and highly productive. Meetings That Work is designed for the person who needs tools to enhance participation and productivity in all types of meetings. This course includes The Workshop Book: From Individual Creativity to Group Action by Brian Stanfield.

Meetings That Work will enable you to:

Move a group toward consensus.
Reduce frustration in your meetings.
Get better results from your meetings.
Get people more involved
Enable people to become more productive

TLC Facilitation of Ottawa and ICA Associates Inc. of Toronto now offer this course in-house for organizations and departments in Ottawa. It includes descriptions of 72 facilitation tools and methods used by professional facilitators, with references. You will learn how to design effective agendas, meetings and facilitated events and use productive tools for difficult and complex topics. Practice is an important component in this course.

Learn how to:

Increase the productivity of the group.
Focus the purpose and intent of large and small meetings.
Aid the group in its decision-making processes.
Handle difficult situations in groups.
Match process tools to each group’s needs.
Design effective agendas.
Create participatory environments.
Develop a sense of teamwork among team members.

Meetings That Work Structure

Day One

Day Two

Session One: Participating in Meetings

Keys to effective meetings
Nature of dialogue
Ladder of involvement

Session Three: Designing Meetings

Healthy communication
STEPS for effective meeting
Meeting design
Stages of the journey
Social styles
Challenging situations

Session Two: Planning Agenda Items

Agenda design
Detailed processes
Tools and techniques

What is special about this ICA Associates Inc. course?

Most ICA courses are designed for the person who is or intends to be a professional facilitator. This course is for the person who coordinates and leads meetings, and wants to know how the professionals do it. The colour manual includes many tools, templates, processes and actual examples.
This course is for meeting coordinators, chairs and team leaders who want to know how to design and lead meetings that stay on track, get results in the meeting, and have effective follow-up built into the design.

“Meetings That Work is part of ICA Associates Inc. Professional Facilitator Program, the only program to get Comprehensive Program endorsement by IAF." Meetings That Work, along with the US TFM course address over 2/3 of the competencies of the IAF.

Meetings That Work	ToP Network Member Fees	Non Top Network Member Fees
Early Bird Registration (paid by November 13, 2016)	$350	$400
Regular Registration (paid by December 12, 2016)	$400	$450
Late Registration (paid after December 12, 2016)	$450	$500