Leading And Chairing Meetings – One Hour Crash Course

Leading and Chairing Meetings – A One Hour Crash Course is a rapid and effective way for you to learn how to effectively lead or chair different types of meeting. The course offers key techniques and approaches to effectively lead a meeting that runs to time, achieves all of its objectives and engages participants in the discussion.  In the course, we cover how to lead a discussion based meeting, a “for information only” meeting and a decision panel-style meeting. 

A unique aspect of this course is you will learn about how to lead meetings from an instructor (Professor James Smith) who actually leads and chairs different types of meetings daily, including interview panels, faculty meetings, grant funding decision panels, Fellowship panels, advisory board meetings, employment disputes and mediation meetings, seminars, as well as meetings with industry partners and government officials. He has chaired meetings in Europe, in the United States, South America and also in Asia and India.

In this course, we establish effective approaches that you can use for establishing your leadership in chairing meetings, and you will learn

• How to run any type of meeting effectively

• How to structure your meeting to achieve tangible outcomes

• What your responsibilities are before, during and after the meeting

• How to ensure you control the meeting from start to finish, and promote engagement with the meeting participants

• How to deal with conflict and disruptive behaviour

This course is focused upon the really key information that you need to learn, and can be completed in just one hour, meaning that you will be well prepared to lead or chair your first meeting in less time than it takes to hold the meeting itself!

Your instructor, Professor James Smith, is an established and popular instructor on the Udemy platform.  Feedback that he has received from Udemy students includes;

“Very easy to understand and the instructor spoke slowly enough that I could let the information sink in” – KW

“Very informative and thorough. Getting ready to take the next course.  The assignments with the instructor’s example following were very helpful” – KR

This course is ideal for you if you are

• An inexperienced individual who intends to chair or provide leadership meetings

• An experienced individual who chairs meetings, decision panels, or advisory boards

• A senior manager who regularly meets with colleagues from their own company, or external industry, government, public sector representatives

• Business leaders who meet with international contacts, collaborators or co-workers

• Consultants who meet with clients from different sectors

Course Structure

Module 1 “Getting Ready for the meeting” covers everything you need to know about your role as the Chair or Leader of a meeting, how to set an agenda and appropriate timings, and how to ensure that you can effectively manage introductions and setting expectations.

Module 2 “Running the meeting” covers all aspects of chairing the meeting itself. This module covers how you go about establishing the purpose of a meeting together with the decision points and effective time management. It also covers best practice for how you manage and interact with the people in your meeting, from techniques that encourage them to contribute, as well as providing tangible examples of disruptive behaviour and excellent approaches for how to deal with these effectively and quickly.

Module 3 “Wrap up and post meeting” covers post meeting actions and responsibilities, as well as how Any other business or AOB can be dealt with at the close of a meeting. This module also talks about reviewing the effectiveness of a meeting to ensure your continued personal development.

Who this course is for:

• Inexperienced Individuals who intend to chair or lead meetings
• Experienced individuals who chair meetings, decision panels, or advisory boards
• Senior staff who meet with colleagues from their own company, or external industry, government, public sector representatives
• Business leaders who meet with international contacts, collaborators or co-workers
• Consultants who meet with clients from different sectors