Run Meetings That Matter: Facilitation Skills for Leaders

About This Course

The average professional attends dozens of meetings every month. Too many of those meetings are unfocused, unproductive, and ultimately a drain on the time and energy of everyone in the room. The cost is not just the time lost; it is the erosion of trust, engagement, and credibility that happens when people walk out of another meeting feeling like nothing was accomplished.

Effective meeting facilitation is a learnable skill, and it makes an immediate, visible difference. This course equips leaders and facilitators with the practical tools to design meetings that have a clear purpose, run discussions that stay on track, draw out meaningful participation from all attendees, and close every meeting with clear decisions, accountable owners, and actionable next steps.

Whether you run daily standups, strategic planning sessions, cross-functional working groups, or anything in between, this course gives you the skills and the confidence to run meetings that people actually value.

What Participants Will Learn

After completing this course, participants will be able to: 

• Design meetings with clear purpose, structure, and outcomes that justify the time investment
• Open and frame meetings in ways that set a productive tone and clear expectations from the start
• Facilitate discussion that stays focused, draws out full participation, and moves toward decisions
• Manage common meeting dysfunctions, including dominance by a few voices, tangents, and unproductive conflict
• Close meetings with clear decisions, assigned accountability, and documented next steps
• Build a reputation as a facilitator who runs meetings people find worth attending

Delivery & Format

FORMAT

Half-day or full-day workshop

DELIVERY

In-person or virtual

GROUP SIZE

Up to 24 participants per session