Meeting/Event Information

Make A Better Meeting: Tactics and Tools for More Effective Meetings

Synopsis: Meetings are more often than not one of the most costly investments teams make, yet, the vast majority of meetings are rated as inefficient or worse, a waste of time. This is fair feedback for many meetings, yet there is a robust toolkit and set of approaches that we can take to help shift more of our meetings to time well spent- achieving key outcomes, connecting people to solve complex problems, and launching people back to their individual work with clarity and direction.  In this workshop you will:

• Take a 20,000-foot view of the current state of most meetings and identify some of the root causes of problematic meetings
• Examine the Before, During, and After of effective meetings
• Expands your toolkit and tactics as both meeting facilitator and meeting participant, to ensure that you contribute to more meetings that you are a part of being well organized and effective uses of time

Speaker: Lou Bergholz, Managing Partner and Founder of Edgework Consulting

BIO: Lou is the managing partner and founder of Edgework Consulting, a training and facilitation firm specializing in the interpersonal side of organizations and institutions.  Lou is a career facilitator with over 30 years of experience working with teams, managers, and individual contributors.  Additionally, Lou is a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan.