Course description
The successful conducting and running practical board meeting course at Rcademy aim at helping you become a clear facilitator with the skills and knowledge to control situations without jeopardizing the board meetings’ productivity.
Some of the significant outcomes of attending this course in Rcademy is you will gain skills and knowledge to assist you in lowering board meeting dysfunctions. For example, learn the methods for balancing meeting discussions, managing meeting participants, and staying on track, and help you have the skills to formulate the best meeting agendas.
How does a secretary arrange a board meeting?
The Secretary requests the special reports, committee reports, and agenda items almost four weeks before the planned meeting. The Secretary then plans the session and adds notes to the copies of the CEO and board discussion chair.
How to assess the effectiveness of a board meeting?
To evaluate the success of a board meeting, you first review the board’s agenda. If the same items appear on the plan and the resolution, the board had good expertise in dealing with their issues. In addition, an effective board meeting creates and promotes its collective vision of the organization’s purpose, values, behavior, and culture that it wishes to advance in doing business.
In this Successfully Conducting and Running Effective Board Meetings Training Course by Rcademy, you will learn the best practices and various methods to successfully conduct and run board meetings.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
The objectives of this Successfully Conducting and Running Effective Board Meetings Training Course by Rcademy are to enable professionals to:
- Understand how to plan and control effective board meetings
- Understand the primary factors associated with effective practice and facilitation models that help them
- Study the inclusive and lead robust meeting discussions
- Determine the value of board meetings as a tool for management
- Understand how to formulate a solid plan
- Apply tools to focus on the correct information
- Understand the vital planning levels which create board meeting time more effective
- Learning how to chair board meetings effectively by controlling disruptions, taking meeting minutes, and professionally handling personality
- Learn how to join and incorporate electronic choices for remote attendees
- Learn how to set meeting spaces for a maximum efficiency
- Understand how to ensure an inclusive and productive meeting environment for all the attendees in a board meeting
- Understand why board meetings are essential in the decision-making process
- Understand the essence of conducting and running effective board meetings and why board meetings are crucial for the business productivity
- Apply the skills and knowledge learned in this Rcademy course to plan a board meeting effectively and to know the requirements to include in a business plan
- Study the key factors that contribute to a successful business meeting
- Apply the learning techniques in handling counterproductive traits in meetings
Training Course Content
Module 1: Fundamental for Effective Board Meetings
- Management of productive board meetings
- Good board meetings vs bad board meetings
- Basic to attaining productivity
- Effective meetings qualities
- The fundamental essential for meetings
- How to lead board meetings
- Critical questions: when, why, who, and where
- The purpose of the meeting
Module 2: Managing of Board Meeting
- Decisions and ideas
- The responsibility of a leader
- Removing groupthink
Module 3: Effective Board Meeting Planning and Preparing
- Writing the board meeting agenda
- Preparing the agenda
- Pre-meeting preparation
- Selecting the venue
- Knowing the board meeting participants
- Setting the time and date
- Arranging and setting goals
- Collecting materials
- Doing logistical planning
- Rules of effective board meeting planning
- Sending invitations
- Meeting follow up
Module 4: Principles of Effective Board Meeting Facilitation
- Facilitator method and rules
- Knowing board facilitation
- Make sound decisions
- Leading a board meeting
Module 5: Effective Agendas in Board Meetings
- Goal and purpose of the plan
- Preparing and planning the agenda
- So’s and don’ts of an agenda
- The importance of a meeting agenda
- Knowing the goals of the board meeting
- Matching the board meeting goals with the company objectives
- Setting SMART goals that give good results
- Communicating the schedule
- Drafting a strong agenda
Module 6: Board Meeting Communication and Facilitation Skills
- Assertiveness
- Communication within the board meetings
- Non-verbal communication
- Effective use of verbal communication
- Chairing a board meeting
- Electronic options
- Dealing with challenging people
- Dealing with individual conflicts
- Managing a board meeting
Module 7: Board Meeting Responsibilities, Roles, and Delegation
- The minute taker
- The facilitator
- The communicator
- The attendees
- Various types of board meetings
- Large vs small board meetings
- Effective assignment of tasks
- Results delegation
Module 8: Effective Meeting Minutes
- Explanation of minutes of meetings
- Noting of minutes
- Minute templates
- Taking minutes
- Action planning after meetings
- Time-bound meetings
- Transcription and note-taking
- Closing meetings and follow-ups
Module 9: Management of Meetings
- Setting the expectations
- Meeting Etiquette
- Developing the ground principles
- Maintain the board meeting on track
- Holding the attendee accountable
- Dealing with overtime
- Controlling disruptions
- Late arrivals or early exits
- Off-topic discussions
- Mobile phone rule
- Resolution of conflicts
- Gamification of meetings
Module 10: Additional Responsibilities and Meeting Problems
- Recognizing the secret agendas
- Resolving issues
- Lowering of repetition and wheel spinning
- Tracking challenging issues
- Management of the complex individuals
- Finishing action items by agenda
- Compliance and confidentiality
Course delivery details
Rcademy has created an effective board meeting program as a convenient course for experts who wish to coordinate and handle effective board meetings in their organizations. This program is a practical course that adopts the rules of coordinating board meetings. There is the use of adult learning methodology in the program with the help of powerful presentations and interactive exercises. The Rcademy course will use mock sessions and group exercises to study the methods required to hold successful board meetings.
This program at Rcademy is urged to engage in real-time situations and role-plays. With active participation, the attendees will study to apply the skills learned in this course. In addition, there can be customized training to meet a company’s expectations.
The course offered at Rcademy follows the Do-Review-Study-Apply technique with the pre and post-program assessment done to evaluate the training success.
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