How to Facilitate A Meeting Effectively – 9 Actions To Take
Channel: Enhance.training
Date: 19/08/2021

Learning how to facilitate a meeting effectively is a great skill to develop for anyone who runs, organises, or attends a lot of meetings. 

Facilitating a meeting effectively is likely to make the meeting a lot more useful for everyone - attendees are more likely to solve the problem or make the decision they are at the meeting for. And it is likely to be a much more enjoyable journey to get there for all attendees.

In “How to Facilitate A Meeting Effectively” I share 9 meeting facilitation tips that will help you improve your facilitation techniques for meetings, making meetings more productive and useful to you, the team and business.

It is very hard to undertake effective meeting facilitation and be a full participant in the meeting. Take one role or the other – avoid attempting both.

The first action in how to be a good facilitator in a meeting is to stay neutral. If you don’t, you will not maintain the trust of every participate, therefore hampering your ability to be an effective meeting facilitator. 

Stay apart from the meeting conversation and observe the dynamics of what is happening, the personalities in the room and all the non-verbal signals everyone sends. Listen to what is being said and help keep the meeting on course to achieve its objectives. 

I share meeting facilitation ideas and questions that you use to keep the meeting moving through the agenda, overcome roadblocks and gain agreement from the participants. 

Use my 9 effective meeting facilitation techniques to improve the results you get from your meetings.

00:00 Intro
01:25 Pre Meeting Actions
03:11 1 Stay Neutral
03:55 2 Actively Listen
04:45 3 Focus on The Purpose
05:16 4 Keep The Group Moving
05:48 5 Ask Questions
07:13 6 Participation
08:09 7 Positive Atmosphere
08:58 8 Paraphrase and Summarise
09:38 9 Reach Agreement 
10:29 In Summary

Additional videos that you will find useful:

How to Set a Meeting Agenda                     https://youtu.be/hVe5e-_LzoI
How To Run A Great Team Meeting            https://youtu.be/WV5l4xYVSeY
How to Set Objectives for the Team           https://youtu.be/flKkeZd4nRY
How to Motivate a Team                              https://youtu.be/Vvpa98a_wDY