Business meeting skills - multimedia cd-rom & candidate workbook

This Business Meetings self-development program will teach candidates to maximize their effectiveness in the highly visible forum of a business meeting and ensure that they make the meetings they attend more productive.

Candidates will learn how to set objectives and develop and use an agenda to lead discussion within a meeting. How to identify personality types and target their own message for maximum impact whilst tactfully preventing others from taking control or holding up progress. They will also learn the politics of meeting with subordinates, peers or superiors and how to encourage participation - so that the decisions are owned by the group. Don’t take our word for it – see customer comments

Multimedia CD-Roms Candidate Workbooks

"a highly effective & structured approach to meetings"
How do you know if a meeting works? What is an effective meeting, anyway? Questions such as these are explored in this course as it reveals a highly effective and structured approach to conducting meetings. Your meetings should be important to the health of your group or organization, if not – why bother?
Belinda Smithson, HR Manager, Houston, USA

"the practical tools to implement positive change"
Making meetings happen is not just about learning theory it is also about applying strategies, and following them through. By providing the practical tools to quickly and easily implement positive change in your work unit, this course should prove an invaluable guide – it has to me.
Derek Bell, Training Manager, Optical Fibers, San Francisco, CA, USA

Courses Available


The Commercial License costs only $295 and enables unlimited use of the multimedia CD-ROM & Candidate Workbook within your organization.

Candidates will learn how to	... Identify key objectives and use an agenda to ensure they are pursued Understand personality types & target their message for maximum impact Master the politics of meetings – with subordinates, peers & superiors Encourage participation, so that all decisions are adopted by the group Maintain a rate of progress & tactfully prevent others from taking control

Raise Meeting productivity Now! This Business Meetings self-development program will help candidates to master the art of contributing to, and leading, business meetings. Meetings are often highly inefficient and ineffective - tying up many man hours in non-productive activity. The groundbreaking "personalized" approach of this course helps candidates to tap into their own analytical and interpersonal skills and then to use these skills in order to maximize their positive contribution in forthcoming meetings.

Purchase of a Commercial License enables unlimited use of this training course within your organization. We can already list many of the Worlds leading organizations as users of GetAhead training courses.

If your organization would like to provide GetAhead training courses as a self-study learning resource for your staff (or members) you will need to purchase this Commercial License version.

GetAhead in Business Meetings

This Business Meetings self-development program is equivalent to a two-day instructor led course and is made up of self contained sections, each representing approximately 15 minutes of training. This gives candidates the flexibility to either undertake intensive study or to fit their training into a busy work schedule.

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Study Area 1 - Introduction
	Introduction - This section describes the importance of justifying meetings on the basis of their true cost, being selective about the meetings that you attend, and trying to influence all future meetings to ensure a positive outcome.
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Study Area 2 - Calling a Meeting
	Do you Need a Meeting - Explains why unscheduled meetings, which usually focus on a single issue, can be an efficient alternative to a formal scheduled meeting and how to decide which format is the most appropriate.
	Your Goals and Objectives - Describes why it is important to have a clear objective ahead of a meeting and how to focus any case you are presenting on a clear message and not just the facts and information that support it.
	Planning Your Agenda - Describes the meeting agenda which: acts as a reference against which to prepare for a meeting, provides a script for the meeting itself and represents a standard by which the meeting can be judged a success or failure.
	Preparing the Venue - Discusses the importance of selecting an appropriate venue, which matches the specific requirements of the meeting and how seating arrangements can affect the atmosphere and tone of the meeting.

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Study Area 3 - Controlling a Meeting
	Chairing a Meeting - Describes the role of the chairperson and why the chair should always strive to be seen as impartial, focusing on the processes of the meeting rather than the substantive issues it has been called to address.
	Subordinates, Peers and Superiors - Explains the different problems facing the chairperson depending on the composition of the meeting group, and discusses different strategies that are effective for chairing meetings with subordinates, peers and mixed groups.
	Opening and Leading - Describes the importance of making your style of leadership clear, ensuring that that each item is dealt with in line with the agenda and that all points of view get a fair hearing.
	Staying in Control - Explains how the chairperson can exert a positive influence on the mood of the meeting, the importance of responding quickly to any rise in tension and how to prevent the meeting being hijacked by someone with their own personal agenda.
	Closing Effectively - Explains how the chairperson should draw the meeting to a close, making any final remarks positive and forward-looking. It also describes the actions that need to be taken with regard to the minutes and follow-up activities.

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Study Area 4 - Presenting Your Case
	Targeting Your Message - This section details a simple but effective method for identifying the personality types in a meeting group, and how to target your message accordingly.
	Communicating Effectively - Explains how to read the body language of the other attendees, which should help you to focus your message where it can have maximum impact; keeping supporters with you, talking round those that can be swayed and trying not to alienate those who oppose your case.
	Using Positive Body Language - Explains how to use positive body language to reinforce the opinions you wish to express, and how to avoid negative or intrusive non-verbal communication that may undermine your message.
	Effective Audio-Visual Aids - Describes the advantages and disadvantages of the most commonly used visual aids, and how they can be used to support your contribution to a meeting.

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Study Area 5 - Dealing With Conflict
	Identifying Role Players - This section describes the main roles that individuals tend to adopt in meetings; how to recognize these roles, how to identify any disruptive participants and take action to prevent them from having a negative impact on the meeting.
	Controlling the Factions - Explains how splitting up known factions and the use of tactical seating arrangements can defuse a potentially volatile meeting and ensure that the agreed objectives remain the priority.
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GetAhead Multimedia CD-Roms
This multimedia CD-Rom represents approximately 5 hours of interactive study and is equivalent to a 2-day instructor led course. It is made up of self contained sections, each representing approximately 15 minutes of training, giving you the flexibility to either undertake intensive study or to fit your training into a busy work schedule. It clearly describes the underlying concepts which are then illustrated using a variety of real-world examples. It also includes fully interactive exercises, case studies and questions to ensure that you understand and remember all of the key messages.


Stimulating Interactivity Every title in the GetAhead series uses a combination of specially developed 3D graphics, animation and interactivity to create a stimulating one-on-one multimedia learning environment. Each course represents 5 hours of intensive training and is equivalent to a 2-day instructor led course. A personal coach (Avatar) will guide each candidate through the course, introducing each section, posing questions and summarizing the key learning points.
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Flexible Study All GetAhead courses are modular and are made up of self-contained sections, each representing approximately 15 minutes of training. Each candidates progress is recorded each time they use the course, giving them the flexibility to either undertake intensive study or to fit their training into a busy work schedule. On subsequent training sessions, each candidate is given the opportunity to recall their personal study history and continue from that point.
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In-Depth Content Each GetAhead title has been designed by experts in that subject area. Each course clearly describes the underlying concepts which are then illustrated using a variety of real-world examples. All of the content is fully narrated and includes interactive exercises, case studies and questions to ensure that candidates understand and remember all of the key messages.
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Course Administration A challenging self test is included with each GetAhead course, to provide each candidate with an accurate appraisal of their performance. Each interactive question includes detailed feedback together with a cumulative score. The commercial licence includes a built in Learning Management System (LMS) enabling a course administrator to review the performance of all candidates that have taken the test. This includes the following criteria: Candidate Name Course Title Date of Test Time of Test Candidates Score Time Taken The course administration is password protected and facilitates the: search for, export & deletion of candidate records.

GetAhead Candidate Workbook

The candidate workbook is designed to be used in conjunction with the interactive multimedia CD-Rom training course and provides an invaluable learning aid. It can be printed out and distributed to as many candidates as required and will help them to maximize their learning experience.

Used whilst studying the multimedia CD-Rom, the candidate workbook acts as a largely pre-written set of candidate course notes. However, everybody learns in a unique way and the workbook supports this – as it also contains space in which candidates can add their own notes and annotations as their studies progress.

As with the multimedia CD-Rom, the candidate workbook clearly describes the underlying concepts which are then illustrated using a variety of real-world examples. It also includes exercises, full text case studies and questions to ensure that they understand and remember all of the key messages imparted by the multimedia CD-Rom.

Workbook features include:

Candidate workbook features

   1) Full Acrobat navigation, facilitating targeted content searching.
   2) Section introductions are used to emphasize the key learning objectives.
   3) Key learning points are highlighted within each self contained section.
   4) Questions are supported by detailed feedback in a separate section
   5) Pictorial explanations are used where these add clarity or meaning.
   6) Each section is summarised to reinforce the key learning messages.