How to Lead Engaging Meetings – Barbara J. MacKay

The what, why and how of creating engaging meetings in-person and online where everyone participates in helpful ways

Learn to bring a facilitator’s mindset to your team meetings, bringing out your team’s best ideas.

Over 1,200 organizations have learned how to run engaging meetings from Barbara MacKay and North Star Facilitators. In this on-demand course, Bar- bara will show you how to ask great questions, lead activities that work for participants with different thinking and learning styles, and structure your meetings to create irresistible opportunities for engagement.

Regularly updated, this course teaches simple exercises and meeting techniques for in-person, fully virtual, and hybrid meetings alike.

Have you ever led a meeting where:

• You don’t get answers when you ask a question?
• One or two people do all the talking and no one else gets a chance to contribute?
• You lose people’s attention to distracting technology?
• You feel like you have to do it all on your own, because no one else is stepping up?

The good news? Meetings don’t have to be stressful or exhausting.

To get everyone actively engaged—so everyone is contributing their best ideas and working well together as a team—you need to learn how to:

• Ask great questions
• Lead activities that work for participants with different thinking and learning styles
• Structure your meetings to create irresistible opportunities for engagement

PDUs: Leadership – 2

With just a few simple meeting techniques, you can transform those plodding, dull meetings into energizing events your team wants to attend.

This course will teach you the crucial meeting leadership skills you need to lead consistently engaging meetings. Please note all the techniques that we cover here for in-person meetings can also be used in some adapted way in online or virtual meetings. We’ve just added a handout in each section that helps you lead engaging virtual meetings.

Whether you’re a brand new team leader, or you’re working with a new team that you’re having trouble engaging, or even if you’ve been leading meetings for years and you’re looking to upgrade your approach, taking this course will give you the practical skills and confidence you need to run more engaging, successful meetings.

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