Secrets of productive meetings

Types of meetings – analysis.
The main differences between on-site and remote meetings (teleconferences and videoconferences).
The classic difficulties of corporate meetings.
The corporate meetings etiquette.
 

Goal the a meeting and its importance.
Selection of topics and matters to discuss.
Consulting and preparing the agenda.
Defining the time frame.
 

Questions to conversational partners during a meeting.
Identifying partners’ interest.
Uncovering their need.

Techniques of presenting the message.
Learning to speak to a remote audience.
Getting your message across.
Keeping the audience focused and interested.
 

How to involve the audience during a meeting.
Pacing and elimination of dead silences.
Handling questions or lack of them.
 

Personality of conversational partners.
Snags and traps of communicating with some personality types.
How to handle the troubling situations.
 

The methods of enforcing the agenda.
The techniques of controlling the time frame.
How to interrupt people without being impolite.
 

The diagnosis of current challenges faced by participants during meetings.
Brainstorming over ways to handle them.