Making the Most of Meetings Trainer’s Guide

Description

This guide gives you the tools you need to deliver a successful workshop on the essentials of facilitating an effective meeting. It is built on the concepts and exercises presented in Making the Most of Meetings: A Practical Guide. It provides step-by-step instructions for planning and presenting a dynamic, informative workshop that will help participants become more reflective and skilled in meeting facilitation.

The trainer’s guide includes the following:

• An overview of the workshop goals, audience, and learning outcomes
• The essentials of workshop design, including training principles, room setup, timing and pacing of activities, and a list of equipment and supplies needed
• Workshop at a glance— a summary of the topics, activities, materials, and timing for this one-day workshop
• 11 learning activities with notes on how to implement them
• 16 handouts to reproduce for participants
• 25 black-and-white overhead transparency masters to use during your presentation
• 4 sample flip-chart pages
• A CD of 25 slides for a PowerPoint presentation or to print out as color transparencies
• 2 follow-up assignments for participants to help make the concepts stick