Masterful Meetings
Masterful Meetings is a meeting facilitation training course for managers, team leaders, and project managers who want meetings that start on time, stay on track, and lead to real decisions.
Most organizations lose thousands of hours a year to unproductive meetings — no agenda, no decisions, no follow-through. The problem isn’t your people. It’s the absence of a consistent meeting facilitation system. This course gives your team that system.
Using our PDI methodology (Practical, Dynamic & Interactive), Masterful Meetings is a step-by-step framework for planning, leading, and closing productive meetings in both in-person and virtual environments. Energetic instructors keep sessions highly interactive so your team learns by doing — not just listening.
In Person Edition
Learn with your peers!
This convenient, two-day course is designed to help you improve your meetings using practical facilitation techniques. You’ll learn our proven framework for maximizing productivity and performance as well as strategies to overcome the most common issues in today’s meetings.
Learn how to:
- Develop a results-driven agenda
- Start meetings on time with everyone present
- Manage dysfunctional behavior
- Keep meetings on track and focused
- Increase productivity and efficient time management
- Bring your group to consensus
- And more!
Discover how you can create a meetings revolution in your organization by eliminating the most common problems.
Virtual Edition
Learn from your location!
This instructor-led, online version is delivered in 1.5 days and is broken into several sessions. It is designed for people who lead meetings in which some or all of the participants are remote. The course provides a structured approach to virtual meeting management including techniques for starting on time with everyone present, keeping the group focused, managing dysfunctional behavior, and closing with commitment.
Day 1
Session 1
8:30 AM – 11:30 AM ET
Getting Started
Masterful Meetings Vision
Practice Session / Break
Session 2
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM ET
Preparing of the meeting
Starting the meeting
Practice Session / Break
Session 3
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM ET
Executing the meeting
Information Gathering Review
Day 2
Session 4
8:30 AM – 11:30 AM ET
Closing the meeting
Handling Dysfunction
Practice Session / Break
Session 5
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM ET
Handling Disagreement
The Master Plan for Transforming Meetings Organization-wide
Next Steps
Find the Right Training Option for Your Team
Tell us how many people will attend and we’ll match you with the best format — whether that’s an upcoming public class or a private session built for your organization.
- Public classes available year-round — in-person and virtual
- Private classes fully customized for groups of 10 or more
- Train-the-Trainer options to scale meeting culture organization-wide
- Practical PDI methodology — your team learns by doing
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Who will benefit from this course?
This meeting facilitation training course is ideal for professionals who lead or participate in important workplace meetings — and need them to be shorter, more focused, and more decisive.
Ideal For:
- Meeting Leaders
- Supervisors
- Managers
- Product & Project Managers
- Total Quality Facilitators
- Trainers
- Analysts
- Reengineering Teams
Needing To:
- Drastically improve meeting quality organization-wide
- Reduce time and money lost to unproductive meetings
- Build a shared meeting culture across all teams
- Reach faster, better group decisions
- Handle difficult behaviors without derailing the meeting
Get the White Paper + Course Details
Fill out the short form and you’ll immediately receive The Cost of Wasted Meetings — plus information on how Masterful Meetings training can help you transform meeting culture in your organization.
- Quantify what unproductive meetings really cost your org
- Three proven approaches for creating a meetings revolution
- Shareable Meeting Rights you can roll out across your team
- Course schedule, formats, and how to bring this to your team
What you will learn
In this meeting facilitation training, you’ll learn a complete, practical framework for planning, leading, and closing productive meetings — including how to adapt those techniques for virtual meeting facilitation and hybrid teams.
Objectives
Types of meetings you’ll improve
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Weekly team and staff meetings
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Project status and stand-up meetings
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Leadership and department meetings
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Strategic planning and problem-solving sessions
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Virtual and hybrid meetings with remote participants
Training for
Masterful Meetings is available at various times throughout the year and is delivered in both in-person and virtual live instructor-led formats. This option is ideal for individuals seeking professional development in a small group setting.
Best for individuals and small groups enrolling in our public classes.
Best for teams of 10 or more seeking a dedicated, private meeting facilitation training — fully customized to your organization. Private classes are fully customizable, taught at your location or virtually, and provide the best value for groups of 10 or more.
*If you have fewer than 10 people, but still desire a personalized, private learning experience, consider collaborating with other departments in your organization or other organizations near you.
Want to build internal meeting facilitation capability?
Our Train the Trainer option equips your internal facilitators with the Masterful Meetings framework so you can scale the system across your organization.
Upcoming Courses:
Masterful Meetings
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Masterful Meetings
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Masterful Meetings: Virtual Edition
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