Equip managers to hold the difficult conversations meeting time efficiency requires.
Managing Meetings and Reducing Organisational Time Waste
A structured, applied course in meeting time efficiency — designed to be used the week you return.
📍 Istanbul🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
A process for meeting time efficiency that managers quietly work around has already failed. Most disputes about the people management and development capability begin as a conversation that was handled badly. Participants develop a defensible line of reasoning for the choices they make about this area of people management and development. The course gives participants a defensible structure for meeting time efficiency and the judgement to adapt it. It suits anyone whose decisions touch the wider people management and development agenda, in large organisations and small ones alike. Exercises escalate in difficulty, ending with the ambiguous situations that make this strand of people management and development hard in practice. Buying a tool rarely fixes meeting time efficiency; the underlying capability has to be built internally first. Organisations that document the people management and development capability properly resolve disputes about it far more quickly. The closing exercise tests whether the participant's plan for this area of people management and development survives a hostile question.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Integrate meeting time efficiency with reward, development and performance processes.
Assess the cost of meeting time efficiency and the cost of leaving it as it is.
Set the minimum documentation for meeting time efficiency that is genuinely necessary, and stop there.
Verify that improvements to meeting time efficiency have held six months after they were introduced.
Structure records of meeting time efficiency so that they answer the questions an auditor will actually ask.
Build the evidence base on meeting time efficiency from data the organisation already collects.
Who Should Attend
Senior leaders accountable for the culture meeting time efficiency produces.
Quality staff verifying that meeting time efficiency performs as designed.
Members of committees that take decisions affecting meeting time efficiency.
Employee relations specialists handling cases arising from meeting time efficiency.
Legal and compliance advisers reviewing meeting time efficiency.
Recruitment and resourcing staff affected by meeting time efficiency.
Course Modules
Meeting time efficiency: fairness, equity and consistency
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Building lasting competence in meeting time efficiency
- Confirm that those complying with meeting time efficiency understand why it exists.
- Check that meeting time efficiency still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
- Identify the data the organisation already holds that bears on meeting time efficiency.
- Pilot changes to meeting time efficiency in one area before wider rollout.
Session 2Getting other functions to support meeting time efficiency
- Document the reasoning for every exception granted under meeting time efficiency.
- Design the communication for meeting time efficiency around the questions people will actually ask.
- Draft the minimum viable people policy for meeting time efficiency.
- Set the consistency check that catches uneven application of meeting time efficiency.
Meeting time efficiency: exceptions, appeals and difficult cases
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What has to be agreed before work on meeting time efficiency starts
- Test the policy on meeting time efficiency against three real cases from the past year.
- Close out actions on meeting time efficiency rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
- Confirm records relating to meeting time efficiency meet retention and privacy rules.
- Define who decides on meeting time efficiency and who may only recommend.
Session 2Explaining meeting time efficiency so people believe it
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to meeting time efficiency.
- Arrange the handover of meeting time efficiency so capability survives staff changes.
- Estimate the cost of meeting time efficiency and the cost of leaving it unchanged.
- Build the appeals route for meeting time efficiency and publish it.
Meeting time efficiency: records, privacy and legal defensibility
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What your existing data already says about meeting time efficiency
- Collect evidence on the present handling of meeting time efficiency before proposing changes.
- Review whether meeting time efficiency is aligned with the objectives of the workforce.
- Set the annual review point for meeting time efficiency and who attends.
- Check that meeting time efficiency complies with current labour regulation in every location.
Session 2Appeals and grievances arising from meeting time efficiency
- Establish what evidence demonstrates meeting time efficiency is under control.
- Check that records of meeting time efficiency answer the questions likely to be asked.
- State the purpose of meeting time efficiency in one sentence a new manager would understand.
- Define acceptance criteria for meeting time efficiency in advance.
Meeting time efficiency: cost, benefit and workforce planning
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Costing meeting time efficiency honestly, including the cost of inaction
- Confirm that contractual obligations around meeting time efficiency are understood.
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to meeting time efficiency will be introduced.
- Compare intended and actual outcomes of meeting time efficiency honestly.
- Define the trigger that would require meeting time efficiency to be redesigned.
Session 2The exception to meeting time efficiency that sets the precedent
- Train line managers on meeting time efficiency rather than handling every case centrally.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on meeting time efficiency.
- Agree what will be standardised in meeting time efficiency and what will not.
- Review meeting time efficiency for unintended equity effects across groups.
Choose the package that suits you
Silver Package
At least 3 people
USD1,250
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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