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What are meetings and why are they held?
Primary purpose of meetings
What is the role of the chair person?
What should the role include?
The skills of effective chairing
Careful planning
- Understanding the nature, purpose and objectives of the meeting
- What goes into the planning of any meeting?
- Analysing the agenda from the chairperson's perspective
Chairing capability
- The chairperson as the leader of the meeting
- Working with an ineffective chairperson
- Listening – questioning – summarising
- Understanding participants behaviour
- Keeping the meeting on-track
- Maintaining focus
The skills of effective chairing
Critical evaluation
- How to use the post meeting 18 point self-evaluation checklist
