A bite-sized classroom session (2 or 3 hours) or a 90-minute webinar
Effective chairing is important because it can provide clear leadership and direction, ensure that debates are focused and balanced, enable decisions to be reached and ensure that resources are used to best effect.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the roles, responsibilities and qualities of an effective chair
- Learn ideas and approaches for how to chair successful meetings including preparation, presenting and dealing with challenges
- Be able appreciate how to manage yourself and others well
- Have some actions and ideas to take away and use
Workshop information
Workshop outline
1. We can’t go on meeting like this
- Common meeting challenges for chairs and why they fail or succeed
- Consequences and impact for the Council
- What’s the context you are working in?
- Why is effective chairing important?
2. Roles and responsibilities of an effective chair
- Clarifying the chair’s role
- Skills and qualities of an effective chair
- Communicating and listening for better results
3. Chairing for success – ideas and approaches
- Managing time and boundaries
- Preparation and planning
- Good practice for constructing an agenda
- Creating the right environment
- Good meeting behaviour and managing more difficult situations
4. Takeaway actions
- Review
- What’s your plan?
