Consultancy Skills Toolkit
Chairing Meetings
As a Chair your task is to utilise the talents of the group and move them towards the meeting’s objectives. This can be difficult to achieve. Looking back at your own experiences of chairing meetings, or through your observation of meetings, what elements of leading meetings can go wrong?
In this section, we look at some key pointers that will help you to lead meetings more effectively.
- Setting up the Meeting
- Type of meeting
- Size of Meeting
- Membership
- Developing the Aims and Agenda
- Charing the Meeting
- Opening the meeting
- Keeping Control
- Discussing each item
- Encouraging Participation
- Summarising and Closure
- Actions after the meeting
- Consensus Building