Australian businesses spend approximately $19 billion per year on meetings, so it's important to not only get the most out of your time spent meeting with colleagues, but to assure the company also benefits from any relevant decisions or outcomes.
If you're responsible for setting or managing staff meetings, then the PD Training Meeting Management training course will teach you how to gain accountability, manage the participants, handle disruptions and ensure outcomes are followed through in a timely manner.
Starting with planning and preparing for a meeting, then moving onto managing participants and taking quality minutes to closing a meeting on time, this training course helps develop skills for handling every step required to manage meetings professionally.
This effective training course is available now in Brisbane, Sydney, Parramatta, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra and Perth.
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Course name | Length | Outline | Next class |
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Business Etiquette Training | 1.0 day course | View schedule | |
Meeting Management Training | 1.0 day course | View schedule | |
Personal Productivity Training | 1.0 day course | View schedule | |
Time Management Training | 1.0 day course | December 15 | |
Foundation Skills for Elite Personal Assistants and Executive Assistants Training Course | 1.0 day course | December 11 | |
Foundation Skills for New HR Officers Training | 1.0 day course | View schedule | |
Minute-Taking Training | 1.0 day course | January 22 | |
Computer Basics Foundation Training | 1.0 day course | View schedule | |
Advanced Skills for Elite PA's and EA's | 1.0 day course | January 15 | |
Presentation Skills Training - Accelerated 1 day | 1.0 day course | View schedule |
After Completing this course participants will have learned to:
"Jack was able to tailor the course to be specific to my role and he had some similar experiences within his career that he was able to refer to which made the training more relevant. He was able to identify my strengths and how I will be able to utilise them over the next 2 or 3 years."
"Trainer was brilliant and very engaging! Thanks so much! :)"
-Master Painters Australia
"Barwon Youth always conduct surveys to capture staff's feedback of each meeting, and PD day. All feedback was positive and an example is 'finally a relevant practical training that suits everyone from HR, IT, Management and all youth/social workers!' We will definitely use PD Training and in particular 'Karen' again for professional development in the areas you offer. We conduct training for all staff every two months, so you will hear from us most definitely."
-Barwon Youth
"The highlight was the trainer and his knowledge and delivery."
-Powercor Network Services Major Projects Group
"Jack was able to tailor the course to be specific to my role and he had some similar experiences within his career that he was able to refer to which made the training more relevant. He was able to identify my strengths and how I will be able to utilise them over the next 2 or 3 years."
-NSWBC - Extrastaff Apprenticeships
"Being a trainer myself, I thought Joe was very engaging. The content reinforced some of what I had been taught as a trainer which can be applied for meetings as well. There was good interaction between Joe and the class. A thoroughly enjoyable course that was relevant. We didn't really look at the manual so can't give an accurate comment on that question but I did manage to take 9 pages of valuable notes."
-Schindler Lifts
"The course is very useful in almost all types of settings. The tips, techniques, suggestions are all applicable and I will use it in any type of meeting I run."
"The course was excellent, Ann was a great Trainer. It was easy to understand and very revelant to my role. I will take away a lot of useful ideas and feel better equipped to run meetings."
-Nepean-Blue Mountains Medicare Local
Professor Terry Robbins-Jones, head of the University of Adelaide's School of Accounting and Information Systems says face-to-face meetings are costing Australian businesses a whopping AU$19 billion per year.
He states "...the time spent in face-to-face meetings - probably accounts for well over half the total costs of any organisation, companies should be thinking about having a budget for it or monitoring how effectively it operates," he added. The University of South Australia study found that 46% of executives felt meetings were a good use of time, while 33% felt that - at best - they were fairly productive.
These figures suggest that utilising a "meeting auditor" or "collaborative advocate" could produce cost savings and increased productivity benefits.
Based on these statistics, the Meeting Management Training Course was designed to assist participants with setting the appropriate meeting conventions and protocols to successfully manage formal, informal and e-meetings. Participants will learn to apply tools and techniques in planning, participating in and concluding successful meetings.
Topic 1
Getting Started
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Topic 2
Planning for the Meeting
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Topic 3
Preparing for the Meeting
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Topic 4
Preparing a Meeting Space
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Topic 5
Electronic Aids/Devices
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Topic 6
Roles and Responsibilities
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Topic 7
Chairing a Meeting - Part One
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Topic 8
Chairing a Meeting - Part Two
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Topic 9
Managing Disruptions
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Topic 10
Minute Taking
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Topic 11
Getting the Most from Business Meetings
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When you want a tailored learning experience targeting exactly what you want without bringing everyone physically together, the best choice is a Live Online Class run by PDT.
We tailor the content and activities to be specific to your current needs and the needs of the people and run the course in our usual activity-based workshop style training, however, the participants can all be offsite, or some can be in the room with others offsite.
Unless you have a preferred tools we use 'Zoom for Education' that includes enhanced collaboration features such as One-click content sharing, real-time co-annotation (people can work together in activity files), and digital whiteboarding, we also include things like live polls and group chats so you virtually have the same collaborative learning experience of attending a course in a room with other people.
We have delivered these 100's (if not 1000's) of times, and get great outcomes. We achieve great outcomes because we keep our learner centric approach - just because it’s delivered through a screen to some or all participants doesn’t mean it needs to be less tailored or less personalised.
You still have an expert trainer who talks to you prior to the session and tailors the delivery to use your terminology, ensure activities are relevant and directly applicable and ensures an engaging learning experience that provide people with skills and techniques they can apply the very next day.
A hybrid class is with some people connecting online, and some people physically together in the same room.
We provide the Training Management Centre which is an information hub before, during and after training.
(Let us know if there’s parts you don’t want to use)
Invites people to training
(So you don’t have to)
Generates Sign in Sheet
(So you don’t have to)
Generates Branded Flyer
If you want to ‘promote’ internally
PDF’s of Certificates
(can be co-branded with your logo)
Collects and Reports feedback
(So you don’t have to)
Complete Results Dashboard
(including trainer insights)
At the completion of training participants are encouraged to create an action plan, and invite an accountability buddy via their Orgmenta App.
In your Training Management Centre you have transparency to the action plans so you can see what people are going to do differently.
Our systems and people make it easy to identify how you’ll be able to measure impacts,
and then report on the success in the weeks or months after training.
It’s surprisingly easy to make it so that your system can automatically be up to date with all the training record details you need.