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Workshops - Practical, Streetwise, Engaging & Fun
The reason clients choose me to run workshops for their people is that my programs are high energy, packed with relevant and practical content and presented so people learn as well as laugh.
Engaging, fun, no fluff and content people can apply as soon as they walk out the door.
You’ll learn! You’ll laugh! You’ll learn some more!
Meetings, Governance & Decision Making Workshops
We can design and deliver a meetings, governance or decision making workshop to meet your specific needs
Make snoreworthy meetings a thing of the past
Make Snoreworthy Meetings a Thing of the Past
Expect to learn:-
The cold hard facts about meetings
How meetings really run – what’s happening beneath the surface
How to prepare the documents for the meeting
What needs to be in the documents
What does not need to be in the documents
How to make sure the meeting is as productive as possible, in the shortest possible time
Tips and tricks to enable less meetings, shorter meetings, and better meetings
Broadly you’ll be introduced to:-
Why meetings are universally disliked
The importance of the chairperson
The importance of the way the chair operates and runs the meeting
Where meetings should be held for maximum effect
What makes meetings work
What makes meetings fail
This workshop will be useful if you’re:-
Any person who attends meetings
A person who attends meetings and has some influence over them
How person who chairs meetings
A manager or supervisor
A person who runs toolbox meetings
Minute taking from staff room to board room
Minute Taking from Staff Room to Board Room
Expect to learn:-
What minutes are and what minutes are not
What goes in the minutes and what to leave out of the minutes
Easy ways to capture what needs to be captured
Knowledge of what is legally required in minutes
How to make sure people read the minutes
How to make sure people do what they need to do
How to capture action statements
What to do with difficult people
How to legally have your minutes accepted
The crucial relationship between the minute taker and the chair
Tools that are readily available that can make minute taking easier
Broadly you’ll be introduced to:-
The way meetings work
Why people need minutes
The power plays that go on in meetings and how to deal with them in the minutes
Issues about the room such as the air conditioning, the light, the catering, and the influence they have on whether the meeting runs well or not.
This workshop will be useful if you’re:-
Any person who takes minutes for any type of meeting. Whether it’s a staff meeting, board meeting, management meeting or a meeting on the fly.
Making decisions and getting them implemented
How to make decisions and ensure they’re implemented
Expect to learn:-
How decisions happen
The steps that are necessary for decision making
Why most people don’t follow the steps
An easy checklist for decision making
Why you can never guarantee whether a decision is right or wrong
How and when to revisit decisions
Types of decisions
How to make sure decisions are implemented
How to check the progress of decisions
How to think like a project manager to make sure decisions get made to move projects forward
You’ll be broadly introduced to:-
The concept of project management
The concept of different types of decision making
The ways to capture information in order to assist a group make decisions
This workshop will be useful if you’re:-
Managers
Anyone who’s in a meeting where decisions are made
People who take minutes
Supervisors and executives
Board members
Crossing the line. Good governance for not for profit clubs & associations
Crossing the Line – Good Governance for Not for Profit Clubs & Associations
Expect to learn:-
What governance is and what governance is not
What is good governance
How do you make sure your association does not cross the line
How to make sure people on your board do not cross the line
Understanding the relationship between the board and the membership
Understanding board confidentiality
Understanding the difference between a board meeting and a normal committee meeting
Understanding accountability and responsibility
Broadly you’ll be introduced to:-
The different types of boards and their roles
The role of the chair on the board
The role of a board member and their responsibilities, rights and obligations
How to sniff out fraud and inappropriate behavior and what to do about it
This workshop will be useful if you’re:-
A member of any type of board or not for profit or association
A chair of the board
An office holder or officer of a board
A company secretary for the board
How to chair or run a meeting
How to Chair or Run a Meeting
Expect to learn:-
The way meetings work
The science and art of chairing a meeting
How to command the room without being the boss
The difference between power and service chairmanship
Why the chair needs to say the least but know exactly what’s going on in the meeting
How to read a meeting
How to handle conflict
How to handle contentious issues
How to use formal meeting procedure if you need to
Broadly you’ll be introduced to:-
Formal meeting procedure
Types of people
Basic psychology about what makes people tick in meetings
Why some people are extremely difficult
How to make decisions
Knowing when to put an issue to the vote
This workshop will be useful if you’re:-
Anyone who chairs any type of meeting, such as……
Small staff meeting at work
Large staff meeting
Board meeting
Senior management meeting
Executive meeting
Union meetings
Committee meeting
Club and Society meeting
Any meeting at all
Meeting Procedure - everything you need to know
Hybrid Meeting Procedure – Everything you need to know
Expect to learn:-
Why meeting procedure is still useful
Why meeting procedure in today’s world needs to be run in a modified or a hybrid fashion
How to know when to use formal meeting procedure
The different types of motions
How to handle main motions
How to handle procedural motions and what they do
How to handle points of order
How to handle amendments
Tricky issues which come up:-
How to handle difficult people
The different ways of voting
Why ‘consensus’ sounds good but often doesn’t work
Broadly you’ll be introduced to:-
The broad concept of decision making
The reasons meeting procedure is still used in some organizations
Where meeting procedure goes wrong
The traps of using formal meeting procedure
Why the book Robert’s Rules is often referred to, but is not relevant in Australia
This workshop will be useful if you’re:-
A person who goes to meetings where formal meeting procedures are used
Local government
Clubs, societies and associations
Some union meetings
Any other meeting where formal meeting procedure is used