How can I turn meetings into “events” that people want to attend?

How can I turn meetings into “events” that people want to attend? How can I increase participation, and get the best input and results from everyone? How can I increase commitment to action, and handle difficult or controversial items?

Find out, at Meetings That Work in Brussels or London this September, with Bill Staples of ICA Associates Inc of Canada. I am excited to add two dates for this new courses to my 2017 calendar. Please join us if you can, and share the details below with friends, colleagues and networks who might be interested.

Book by 31 May for early-bird rates on these and all my other remaining ToP facilitation training courses in Brussels this year:

Meetings That Work (2 days) – 14-15 September in Brussels & 18-19 September 2017 in London
Group Facilitation Methods (2 days) – 20-21 June & 7-8 November 2017 in Brussels
Action Planning (1 day) – 22 June 2017 in Brussels
Participatory Strategic Planning (2 days) – November 9-10 2017 in Brussels/

Meetings That Work (New for 2017)

Practical tools to design and lead effective meetings

2 days – 14-15 September in Brussels & 18-19 September 2017 in London.

“I came away with increased knowledge and skills in architecting and planning better meetings. The course also provided me with useful frameworks and tools to be able to engage clients more proactively in planning as well as to improve participation and outcomes. The learning experience was a good mix of theory, sharing of real-life experiences and hands-on application”

Heather Worosz, MBA, MSLS & CPCC, Executive Coach & Consultant

This course will provide you with tips, templates and practical tools from professional facilitators that will enable you to get more from meetings than you ever thought possible. For this new course I shall be joined by Bill Staples of ICA Associates Inc of Canada as guest trainer.

This course and Group Facilitation Methods are two of three modules of the ICA Associates Professional Facilitator Program endorsed by the International Association of Facilitators for those preparing to become an IAF Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF). This course alone covers many of the competencies required by the IAF.

Bill Staples is one of the founders of ICA’s Technology of Participation, a principal partner of ICA Associates Inc. of Canada, and one of the designers of Meetings That Work. Bill is happy to bring Meetings That Work to Europe for the first time in 2017, and will make the course come alive will illustrations from many fields. Bill has worked around the world with many organization and is well known in the field of facilitation. He is the author of Transformational Strategy: Facilitating ToP Participatory Planning, and is the publishing editor of the IAF Journal Group Facilitation. Bill is also a founding member of IAF, and was among the first facilitators to be inducted into the IAF Hall of Fame.

BOOK NOW, or please contact me with any questions or for further details – including how to commission a tailored course for your group, and availability of scheduled public courses in the UK and worldwide.

For more on my work, and what others have to say about it, please see how I work, who I work with and recommendations & case studies – or view my profile and connect with me on LinkedIn.

You can connect with me also by joining my free facilitation webinars online, and IAF England & Wales’ free facilitation meetups in London and elsewhere.