Strategies for Running Effective Board Meeting

This Strategies for Running Effective Board Meeting training course helps delegates understand and leverage the mechanics of effective board meetings. Members of the board frequently need to get together to reach pivotal, far-reaching decisions. Therefore, ensuring that the considerable experience that resides within the board is fully drawn upon can make the difference between quality outcomes and those that lack it. Sound problem solving and analytical skills, astute decision-making skills, facilitation prowess and a good portion of psychological insight are the key ingredients that set the best meetings apart from those that fail to deliver.

In this engaging and interactive 5-day training course, participants will explore a range of skills that enable them to maximise the output of each board meeting. Delegates will learn how to reach complex decisions as a group, how to generate creative solutions to challenging problems, and how to set effective rules of engagement from the outset. They will also discover how different personality styles affect the quality of a meeting, apply strategies for influencing key stakeholders and learn how to handle conflicts and differing opinions that could otherwise derail a board meeting.

This GLOMACS Strategies for Running Effective Board Meeting training course will highlight:

• The fundamentals of effective board meetings
• Shaping your ROEs (Rules Of Engagement)
• Critical and creative thinking methods for effective problem solving
• Reaching high-quality decisions when the stakes are high
• The hidden psychological dynamics of a board meeting

At the end of this Strategies for Running Effective Board Meeting training course, you will have learned how to:

• Understand what sets effective board meetings apart from ineffective ones
• Reach high-stakes decisions as a group while avoiding common biases
• Solve tough problems with data, clarity, and high-quality debate
• Influence and persuade other meeting participants constructively
• Read the invisible psychological forces that shape a meeting

This training course utilises a blended learning approach, and it employs a variety of adult learning techniques such as action learning, group discussions, video case studies and self-reflection exercises. The resulting variety helps delegates to stay engaged throughout the course, feel challenged and draw quick wins for their own development. It also ensures delegates will receive opportunities to link their learning to the real-world challenges they face back in the workplace.

Organizations of those who attend this Strategies for Running Effective Board Meeting training course will benefit in number of ways:

• Save time and money by eliminating ineffective meetings
• Enable the board to debate with focus and purpose
• Improve the quality of the board’s joint decision making
• Decrease the risk of derailed meetings and the negative consequences they entail
• Develop high-caliber board members
• Increase your overall competitiveness

Attendees will benefit in a variety of ways:

• Contribute efficiently to the board meetings you are participating in
• Gain valuable meeting facilitation skills
• Build your problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Enhance your standing as a member of the board
• Set yourself apart and accelerate your career
• Network and share experiences with other accomplished directors and executives

This GLOMACS Strategies for Running Effective Board Meeting training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Board-level Directors
• Executive and Non-Executive Directors
• Senior Managers and Executives required to attend board meetings
• C-Level individuals, including CEOs
• Chairpersons (and other individuals) who are required to facilitate high-level meetings

DAY 1

Running Effective Board Meetings – the Fundamentals

• What constitutes an effective board meeting?
• The 10 key purposes of board meetings
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Avoiding common ‘meeting derailers’
• Generating effective Rules of Engagement (ROEs)

DAY 2

Understanding the Psychology of Effective Meetings

• Understanding the four fundamental personality styles
• Communication skills in meetings
• Influencing and persuading other participants
• Transactional Analysis
• Dealing with conflicts in meetings

DAY 3

Getting to Results: Solving Tough Problems

• Generating clarity while avoiding ‘Analysis Paralysis’
• Overcoming Cognitive Biases
• Applying ‘Critical Thinking and Analysis’ methods
• Applying ‘Creative Thinking and Idea Generating’ methods
• The DMAIC Problem Solving approach used in Six Sigma

DAY 4

Getting to Results: Effective Decision Making

• What’s at stake? The pivotal impact of quality decision-making
• Gathering information for sound decision-making
• Key approaches to effective decision-making
• Dealing with resistance to change
• Understanding and Avoiding ‘Group Think’

DAY 5

Meeting Facilitation and Presentation Skills

• The role of the Chairperson
• Effective facilitation techniques
• Presenting with impact
• Overcoming nervousness and public-speaking anxiety
• Insight to action: next steps

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Oxford Management Centre

A GLOMACS - Oxford Management Centre collaboration aimed at providing the best training services and benefits to our valued clients.

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