The ability to run successful meetings will transform your career.

When leaders plan an important event or program they will turn first to their trusted facilitators. These facilitators are people who can prepare an agenda, mediate inputs, drive the tempo and ensure successful outcomes. The basic skills of meeting management apply whether you have 4 people for 30 minutes or 40 people for 3 days. They apply to almost all meeting types, including staff, business and customer meetings, hackathons, brainstorms and workshops.

Lead meetings with confidence

  • STEP 1: Know your Audience

    The purpose of your presentation is engage your audience - address their concerns, stimulate their curiosity and excitement and gain their approval. The only truly effective way to do that is direct interviews. These interviews should be conducted 1:1 with all key stakeholders.

  • STEP 2: Create engaging slides

    It doesn’t take long to learn how to make slides that engage and its worth the effort. Each slide must be simple and clear. Follow these best practices, find videos and podcasts, find a friend to coach you or ask me.

  • STEP 3: Write a compelling story

    Your story needs to engage from the start and lead the audience to your conclusion with zero confusion and sidetracking. Follow these best practices, watch storytelling Ted Talks, join Toastmasters and, if you are really serious read the McKinsey Red Book.

  • STEP 4: Practice and Iterate

    Feedback is the most powerful tool you can use to be a great presenter. Get feecback early and often and practice, practice, practice. Don’t just show your slides but deliver them with the talk track. The more you iterate practice the more rough edges you will remove and the more confident you will be on the day.