We
specialize in training people to manage and
facilitate meetings
Here are some classic symptoms of poor meeting
management:
- Facilitator does not have control
- Some participants are out of control
- Meeting is un-focused
- Meeting was a waste of time
The Hill Group’s Meeting Facilitation
Workshop is designed to make your meeting facilitators more
effective at:
- Controlling their meetings
- Setting and enforcing ground rules
- Handling disruptive participants
- Keeping the meeting focused
- Achieving the meeting’s objectives
There is a separate skill set for an effective
meeting facilitator. When they finish this all-day workshop,
they’ll know how to set clear,
realistic expectations for their meetings. They’ll also
learn a variety of ways to deal with the nine most common
types of challenging
participant’s behaviors. Our trainers will model how
to effectively facilitate a meeting through a combination
of good communication,
involvement, enforcement and fun.
Workshop Format
We believe people learn best by doing, not by just listening.
The participants in this workshop will work in a hands-on
learning environment where the skills we present to them are
put to use immediately.
They will work in small groups to generate,
strategize and role-play their most challenging meeting facilitation
scenarios. They’ll also learn how to identify and influence
small and large groups, how to work with participants who
exhibit low Emotional Intelligence, and they’ll know
what expert facilitators do before, during, and after a meeting.
Their work will be evaluated and critiqued by
our trainer and by the other members of the group. The participants
will leave the workshop with a proven blueprint and process
of how to run their next meeting successfully.
Matt Hill; Meeting Facilitation Trainer
Matt Hill has been speaking and training since 1983. He specializes
in making his audiences more effective with their face-to-face
interpersonal skills. He has trained over 35,000 people in
the U.S. and around the world; including England, France,
Holland, Switzerland, Germany, Canada and Boston.
His clients include Microsoft, eBay, Toshiba
Medical Systems, Intel, Mastercard, Lexmark, HP, BD Bioscience,
UPS, Genentech, U.S. Department of Commerce, and a bunch of
others.
Prior to offering his own services, Matt was
a marketing executive at Xerox Corporation. His career in
sales spans more than 25 years and includes managing a $4
million dollar, 250 person retail merchandise operation. He
holds a BA degree in psychology from California State University,
Northridge.
Training Modules
The Hill Group trainers have the capability
to create training environments that are conducive to attendee
participation and contribution. Depending upon the skill of
the participants, we will customize this workshop by incorporating
any or all of the following partial list modules:
- Meeting Ground Rules Development
- Roles and Rights of a Meeting Facilitator
- Facilitating Basics: Being Prepared
- Setting Expectations
- Small and Large Group Dynamics
- The 20,000 Foot View; Keeping Focus on the Objectives
- Group Brainstorm: Your Facilitating Challenges
- Preconceived Notions Exercise
- Identifying, Handling and Role Playing Unproductive
Behaviors
- Elements of Effective Meetings
- Group Work: Elements of Effective Meetings
- Group Work: Barriers to Effective Meetings
- Emotional Intelligence Primer
- Cultural Issues Awareness
- Descriptions and Strategies for Handling the Non-Participant,
Interrupter, Complainer, Side-Talker, Comedian, Storyteller,
Know-It-All, the Rude & Bad Mannered, Dominator, Anarchist,
and the Combatant
- The Bin
- Things To Do and Not Do
Training Methodology
The Hill Group trainers have the capability to create training
environments that are conducive to attendee participation
and contribution. We take advantage of this by implementing
a training methodology that is based on a peer-coaching model.
By helping each other, the workshop participants benefit from
everyone's expertise and experience.
And we practice what we preach. Our trainer
will model the type of meeting management skills we're looking
for by effectively facilitating this workshop. We'll even
have the participants play the roles of difficult or disruptive
participants so we can demonstrate how they can be handled.
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brochure for this program
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