Meeting Management and Facilitation for the Petroleum Industry - MMF

Meetings remain a boon or curse to corporate communication. Properly planned and managed, meetings are extremely positive and dynamic ways to exchange ideas, shape policy, resolve problems, effect change, etc. However, when poorly designed and implemented, meetings accomplish little. They become virtual breeding grounds for confusion, tension, frustration, boredom and negativity.

This course is for petroleum industry professionals who plan, conduct, and manage meetings. Participants will have a full array of hands-on class experience to practice facilitation skills; to design agendas; to analyze (and understand) individual and group behavior types; and to improve personal and interpersonal communication skills. 

COURSE CONTENT

• Learning how to run efficient face-to-face and/or on-line meetings

• Learning how to prepare and implement meeting agendas

• Learning about meeting facilitation techniques and tools

• Understanding meeting roles and responsibilities

• Learning how-and when-to use meeting facilitation tools

• Mastering meeting management skills, i.e., using time wisely, avoiding topic confusion, handling personal attack, avoiding 'traffic' problems, dealing with individual and group communication, maintaining topic (agenda) focus 

• Recognizing and understanding the various roles that a facilitator plays during the course of a meeting

• Speaking in front of others