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Meeting facilitation

Meeting facilitation

From the course: How to Have Fewer, Better Meetings

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Meeting facilitation

- If you plan your face-to-face or virtual meetings to be clear about your outcome, process, participation and time, you've already done the hard work. Facilitation is then largely about delivering on your plan. However, there are lots of things you can do in the moment to make your meetings really flow. When you're leading or facilitating a meeting, there are four important roles that need to be performed. Managing the process, managing participation, recording outcomes and keeping to time. Now, you can do these yourself or even better, distribute these roles amongst meeting participants to share the load and increase participation and engagement. The process owner is responsible for delivering the planned outcomes by following the process steps. When you are playing this role, you need to keep focused on the outcome you want to deliver and manage distractions to keep the meeting focused. The second role is managing…

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