An Agenda for Success! "There is no sadder or more frequent obituary on the pages of time than 'we have always done it this way.'" Anonymous

A middle manager, on average, spends 30 percent of his or her day in meetings; for upper level managers it can be 50 percent or more. The reality is we will attend many more meetings as participants than as leaders. When you add up the effective hourly rate of everyone in the room, meetings cost more money than any of us ever comprehended! These meetings will either positively or negatively impact the bottom line of any organization – and positively or negatively impact the attendeeÕs opinion of the person who calls those meetings

Quintessential Meetings is part of the Professional Development Series from Quintessential Management, Inc. This full-day program will focus on determining ROI, in addition to how to shorten meetings. If you could save 20 percent on meeting costs, or decrease the number of meetings by 20 percent, what would that mean to your organization? Quintessential Meetings is not about having fewer meetings – it is about making the meetings we do have more productive, valuable and efficient.

Each business day, over thirteen million meetings are held. Too many of these are unproductive and inefficient. This program starts with the basics and is intended to change the attitudes, behaviors and culture of leaders, participants and organizations. Quintessential Meetings Ð An Agenda for Success! is an active vehicle for change.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the value of meetings as a vital management tool, and the role of both leader and participant.
• Recognize strengths and development needs in conducting meetings.
• Set meeting objectives and develop an agenda to help foster productive meetings
• Lead and facilitate productive meetings by applying the learned concepts, methods and tools.

Seminar Topics

• Knowing Your Objective
• The Key Solution... The Agenda - In-Advance
• Cost/Benefit Analysis of Meetings
• The Good, The Bad, The Ugly of Meetings
• What Makes Meetings More Productive
• Understand Different Meeting Roles, Types, Methods
• The Planner/Agenda Form
• Before, During and After the Meeting
• Tools for Improving Effectiveness, Follow-Up and Feedback

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