Leadership Institute

Contributing to Meeting Success

Learning Format: Classroom, Web-Based

Order No. WD81

Although meetings are a fact of workplace life, too often employees are stuck in meetings that run late, waste time, accomplish little, and keep them from their “real” work.

This interactive course gives employees the skills to save meeting time, keep meetings moving forward efficiently, and commit to and follow through on post-meeting actions.

Do You Face Any of These Issues?

  • Do your people have the skills to ensure meetings are organized and on time?
  • Do meeting participants take responsibility for identifying actions to help the meeting achieve its purpose and for following through on post-meeting actions?
  • Do some people dominate meetings while others who could add value sit silently?

Performance Objectives

Helps associates:

  • Share responsibility for achieving meeting outcomes with members as well as the leader.
  • Save meeting time by preparing to make productive contributions.
  • Suggest effective ways to keep meetings moving forward efficiently.
  • Commit to and follow through on post-meeting actions.

Primary Competency Developed

  • Meeting Participation

Secondary Competency Developed

  • Contributing to Team Success

Course Overview

  • Meeting Member Rights: Learners estimate the amount of productive meeting time they spend each year, which demonstrates opportunities to improve meeting efficiency. They identify “rights” they are entitled to as a meeting participant.
  • Make It Your Responsibility: Participants learn seven responsibilities meeting members must demonstrate to have their rights respected and to contribute to meeting success. In small groups, learners prepare and present information designed to build familiarity with the seven meeting member responsibilities.
  • Put Responsibility into Practice: Acting as meeting consultants for a tool company in a case study video, participants must identify examples of when meeting members do and don’t take the responsibilities and the effect this has on other members.
  • What’s Your Responsibility?: Participants apply their learning in a team game. They first identify the most appropriate responsibility to take in a given situation and then develop and evaluate responses to the situation. The facilitator reviews an evaluation tool learners can use to assess how effective they are at demonstrating meeting actions and behaviors. Learners complete Commitment to Action forms that reinforce on-the-job meeting responsibilities.

Video Segment Summaries

  • Team members meet to discuss their company’s logo change and successfully and unsuccessfully demonstrate meeting behaviors.
  • Two optional vignettes demonstrate and reinforce how esteem and empathy are included in meeting member responsibilities.

Course Details

  • Target audience: All employees up to mid-level leaders.
  • Course length: 2 hours, or 1 hour Fast Track.
  • Facilitator certification: DDI-certified facilitator required.
  • Prerequisites: Interaction Skills for Success or Essentials of Leadership.
  • Series: Suitable for all environments.
  • Group size: 10 to 20 people.
  • Prework: No.

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