Running Effective Meetings
Running Effective Meetings
"Meetings, Bloody Meetings"*: Meetings are often regarded as frustrating and a waste of time by many people. Why is this, and can meetings become a satisfying and productive part of an organisations work?
This training will assist participants to look at their practices in planning for, the conduct at and the follow on from their meetings to enable them to maximise their value.
Board and committee meetings are where all aspects of an organisation’s work are formally shaped: decisions are made, responsibilities are agreed, actions are approved, and progress is reviewed.
This workshop offers a clear framework which can be used to turn meetings into essential drivers to give directors/committee members an appreciation of how best to use their time together to achieve their ambitions.
The workshop will cover:
- The setting of agendas
- What should happen at meetings
- The importance of good minute taking and follow up.
Participants will be given a copy of a set of ‘Standing Orders’, outlining best practices for running effective meetings.
*Meetings, Bloody Meetings
In 1976, John Cleese (Monty Python, Fawlty Towers) made a training video titled ‘Meetings Bloody Meetings’. This was aimed at a business audience but it captures in a very funny way the bad and good of so many meetings. See it on YouTube.
- You can book places for yourself and/or colleagues by clicking the button below.
- This event will take place on Zoom.
- Closed Captions can be enabled by attendees.
- Please email ames@wheel.ie if you have any special requirements.
Meet Your Facilitator
Senan Turnbull is a governance and organisational development specialist working across the Community, Voluntary and Charity sectors. He has a lifetime of experience as a volunteer and as a board/committee member of organisations from local to national level.
Over the past twelve years he has undertaken training, mentoring, facilitation and advisory roles with a wide range of not-for-profit organisations on both a consultancy and pro-bono basis. He specialises in advising on constitutions and associated policies and procedural documents to guide the operations and structures of not-for-profits. He delivers training on best practice in being compliant with the Governance Codes from the Charities Regulator and Sport Ireland and he supports organisations to achieve and retain compliance.
