FREE online courses on Effective Meeting Facilitation - Basics Again for
Effective Meetings - Checklist
The information in this course is presented primarily for the
person who will be responsible for pulling those meetings together, leading
them, and coordinating tasks in preparation for meetings and the follow-up steps
in their wake. Topics cover the items on a facilitator's checklist.
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Identify the purpose, or expected outcome, of the meeting.
- Make
sure the right people will be there.
- Develop
the agenda.
- Prepare
necessary materials.
- Double
check the room set up.
- Lead
the meeting as a facilitator
- Agree
on ground rules
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Practice facilitation skills
- Use
consensus-building decision making techniques
- Be
prepared to handle conflict as it surfaces
- Clarify
"next steps" and assignments
- Reflect
on effectiveness of the meeting (evaluation)
