Objectives

Meetings come in all shapes and sizes, from the convention to a quick huddle in an office hallway. This one-day program will be concerned with small work meetings; with groups that have a job to do requiring the energy, commitment, and talents of those who participate.

Benefits

• Understand the value of meetings as a management tool
• Recognize the critical planning step that makes meeting time more effective
• Identify process tools that can help create an open and safe forum for discussion
• Develop and practise techniques for handling counterproductive behavior

Outline

• The basics for effective meetings
• The best and the worst of meetings
• Holding productive meetings
• Preparing for meetings
• Agendas
• Setting the place
• Leading a meeting
• Process and content
• Process tools, including DeBono’s thinking hats, rules of work, and facilitation skills
• How to control a meeting
• A plan for success

Facilitator Profile

Leonard is a passionate facilitator and trainer with more than 12 years of experience in developing impactful training workshops for a wide range of audiences, including working professionals from all over the world, young people, as well as children with special needs. He specializes in providing indoor and outdoor experiential learning, Train-the-Trainer workshops and Facilitator Coaching.

He has accumulated a wide range of management portfolios and human capital development experience in different industries and is therefore able to interact and connect with different audiences. With his sincere, humorous and approachable style of training facilitation, Leonard has garnered consistently excellent feedback.

Leonard has conducted training around the Asia Pacific region for many clients, including Fortune 500 companies. Some organizations which he has facilitated training for are: Coca-Cola, Pfizer, Price Waterhouse Coopers, DBS, OCBC, Citibank, MAS, Munich Re, NUS, SingTel, CPF, CNB, Singapore Power, Transitlink, LKY School of Policy, Linde Gas and many others.

Leonard studied English Language, English Literature and Sociology at the National University of Singapore. He holds a Masters in Applied Linguistics from the National University of Singapore and the Regional English Language Centre, specializing in oral proficiency, including effective presentation techniques. He has conducted international workshops on speaking good English and effective presentation skills.

Leonard holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Development and Department Management, specializing in Organizational Development and Change Management.

Leonard is a firm believer of continuous learning and that one has to constantly unlearn, learn and relearn in order to maximise one’s potential.