Chairing Skills - A guide to better meetings 

This one day workshop is designed especially with the newly appointed chairperson in mind. It will however also be relevant for those of you who have some chairing experience, but would like to see if there are any strategies which will help you to manage your meetings more effectively. The answer is that there are and that we can all learn from each other.

Topics covered will include:

• preparation - a key to successful meetings

• enabling participation

• handling conflict

• keeping to time - the skill of reviewing and summarising

• evaluating your meetings

• styles of chairing

• sharing chairing