Business Skills Workshops

Make each meeting a milestone for success.

Challenge:

Employees typically spend up to 40 percent of their time preparing for and participating in meetings. With poor planning and unclear agendas, meetings end up losing focus and devouring time, energy, resources, and money. This perpetuates an environment where people show up late for meetings or leave early, no one takes the lead, decisions are delayed, and worst of all, people don’t take action after the meeting. Yet with the right training, skills, and processes, running effective meetings, proceeding productively, and ending with a clear course of action will be the standard for your people.

Solution:

The FranklinCovey Meeting Advantage workshop teaches how to run effective meetings by frontloading before the meeting, focusing productively during the meeting, and following through successfully after the meeting. Whether it’s managing a large project across teams, improving business communication, or addressing difficult situations, employees gain the skills to increase accountability and productivity.

About the Course:

In today's high-amperage business world, you have to make meetings work to your advantage. Taught as a one-day,  in-person or online facilitator-led program, the Meeting Advantage workshop helps individuals learn how to plan effectively by frontloading before a meeting, focusing productively during a meeting, and following through successfully after the meeting. When your meetings are relevant and tightly focused, you can navigate all the challenges your business faces. Whether it's managing a large project across teams, improving communication, or addressing difficult situations, Meeting Advantage gives your employees the skills to increase accountability and productivity.

You Will Learn To:

• Initiate, plan, and define the meeting’s purpose
• Develop skills to manage and conduct productive meetings
• Develop and use meeting ground rules
• Use the “Meeting Advantage Planner” to schedule follow-through;
• Review the meeting for improvements.

What You Receive:

• Running Effective Meetings Guidebook. This manual is filled with examples and exercises to help participants continue to learn long after the workshop.
• FranklinCovey Meeting Advantage Planner. A tool for applying your skills every day at work.
• Resource CD. This CD includes electronic versions of the forms from the workshop that you can use to make your meetings more productive.
• Creative Juicers. These 200 brain-squeezing questions help to ignite teamwork and creativity in your meetings.

Length of Training:

Live – Online:

Three 90-minute webinar workshop sessions:

• Session A: 9:00 am–10:30 am MT
• 1-Hour Break
• Session B: 11:30 am–1:00 pm MT
• 1-Hour Break
• Session C: 2:00 pm –3:30 pm MT

Continuing Education Credits:

6 Contact Hours
.6 CEU
7 CPE

Learn more about continuing education credits

Now all your employees can experience the world-renowned benefits of FranklinCovey training, no matter where they live and work around the globe. FranklinCovey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Fundamentals workshop is now available online. Our high-quality webinar workshops put the high-quality instruction of FranklinCovey in-person training into convenient online workshops. Engaging and interactive, this workshop offers compelling content and award-winning videos and is now available live online as three 90–minute sessions.

Workshop Tuition

Frontload

• Use your Meeting Focus tool to define mission-critical data
• Practice the steps to frontload high-focus meetings, including:
  1. Define the overall goal
  2. Set specific objectives
  3. Set an agenda to achieve your objectives
  4. Identify team members and their responsibilities

Focus

• Select appropriate meeting methods to accomplish objectives
• Develop and use meeting ground rules
• Keep meeting concise and moving forward
• Center dialog on the most important topics
• Understand the roles of participants.
• Manage difficult situations
• Make decisions

Follow Through

• Use the Meeting Advantage Planner to time-activate follow-through
• Outline mutually understood next steps
• Make clear assignments
• Set expectations for measurement and follow-up
• Review the meeting for improvements

Delivery Options

• Attend a webinar workshop
• Bring a FranklinCovey consultant to train your organization
• Get certified to teach