Meetings are very important for the work of any organisation. Good meetings are important for collective decision-making, planning and follow-up, accountability, democracy, and other practices that will help you to build a good organisation.
If meetings are used in the correct way, they can help an organisation to be efficient. However, like all organising tools, meetings can be used badly and end up not serving the purpose that they are supposed to.
Sometimes we seem to attend too many long meetings, which discuss the same thing over and over again without seeming to move forward. Meetings can become places where conflict is played out. Some people can also see attending meetings as working for the organisation instead of seeing it as a tool for getting work done.
We should try to make our meetings places where we get democratic and constructive participation and involvement from our members.
Our meeting skills course will focus you on the following:-
- Purpose of a meeting
- Planning a meeting
- The agenda
- Procedures
- Chairing a meeting
- Taking decisions
- Taking minutes
- Following up a meeting
