Leadership
Run Effective Meetings
Hold fewer, shorter meetings that people are glad they came to, and leave every one with clear actions.
- 43 minutes
- 12 modules
- 0.5 CPD hours
- Certificate
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14 days free, then £70 a year or £7 a month.
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What you'll learn
- Decide whether a meeting is needed, and offer an alternative when it isn't
- Write a timed agenda with a clear purpose and a role for each attendee
- Start and finish on time, and help others get used to it
- Hear quieter and more junior voices before the senior ones
- End with an action plan and follow it up afterwards
About this course
Six colleagues in an hour-long meeting is six hours gone. Quite often those hours go on a meeting that's only in the diary because it always has been, with an agenda handed out at the door.
You'll learn to make each meeting earn its place, starting with whether you need it at all. Give it a purpose you could explain in 30 seconds, invite only the people who need to be there, and send a timed agenda early enough for everyone to prepare. In the room, start on time even if someone's missing, ask the most junior people for their view before the senior ones, and bank good tangents for later so they don't take over.
It takes a bit more of your time up front. Everyone else gets theirs back.
- For early career teachers, governors and 5 other roles. All phases.
12 modules
Open in order
- 1 min
Introduction
- 3 min
Don’t have a meeting!
- 2 min
Have and share a clear purpose
- 6 min
Who should attend?
- 4 min
Invest time in your agenda
- 4 min
Expect preparation and focus
- 7 min
Keep to time
- 6 min
Hear all voices
- 5 min
Bank interesting but off topic thoughts
- 2 min
End with an action plan
- 5 min
It doesn’t end when the meeting ends
- 3 min
Wrap up