Before the seminar, participants are asked to think about the meetings they lead (and/or attend) and about how they could be improved.

A pre-work assignment requires that they write a brief account of a recent meeting that went off track or had low participation and to include their ideas on why.

Here are the key topics covered in the seminar:

• Common Meeting Problems
• Elements of Effective Meetings
• The Importance of a Code of Conduct
  see sample Code of Conduct from an actual workshop
• Managing the Dynamics of a Meeting
• Framing the Meeting: Using the UGPOR
• Roles Performed in Meetings
• Measuring the Effectiveness of Your Meetings