Robson Square: Introduction to Meeting Design (encore)

Program Summary

How many meetings do you look forward to attending? We’ve all been in meetings where people are unprepared, go off-track, and the topics discussed are a waste of the team’s time. These problems (and others like them) are often a result of poor meeting design. Good meeting design provides clear expectations for what needs to occur before and during a meeting. An effective meeting design helps allocate time wisely, quickly gets everyone on the same topic, and identifies when the discussion is complete. If problems still occur during the meeting, good design increases the team’s ability to effectively and quickly address them.

Audience

This session is designed for AAPS members who would like to get a better understanding of how to design effective meeting agendas and deliverables. It is assumed that participants will have some autonomy in creating their meeting agendas and deliverables. This is a highly participatory session. You will be expected to bring an agenda for an upcoming meeting or one that you have put together in the past. Not sure if this session is right for you? Please contact AAPS Member Services Officer Sarah Muff for more information.

What You Will Learn

By the end of this workshop participants will understand how a considered meeting structure and design positively impact the achievement of desired outcomes and the experience of the participants. You will gain:

• Practical tools to design powerful agendas
• Approaches to help people be fully present in any meeting
• Insights for using time wisely
• Greater understanding as to how you can influence a positive meeting culture

How You Will Learn

• Presentation of topics and tools
• Immediate application of topics and tools
• Group discussion

About Your Facilitator

Charles Holmes is a skilled facilitator and educator whose 25 years of experience has honed a passion for creating meaningful dialogue among groups whose diverse opinions would otherwise work against a common understanding of desired outcomes. Charles has facilitated projects with clients from health care to forestry and mining, software and pharmaceutical companies, educational institutions and utility firms, government, and not-for-profit sectors. The meetings he has designed and facilitated have focused on innovation, conflict resolution, community engagement, long range scenario planning and hundreds of strategic planning sessions and other team and group engagements. He has worked with multi-national corporations in many settings throughout North America, Mexico, Asia, Europe, and Saudi Arabia. Charles is also a co-founder of the Academy for Systemic Change, a collection of global thought-leaders committed to advancing the capacity for awareness-based systemic change worldwide. They are deeply involved in developing living examples of biological, social, spiritual and economic well-being.

Event Details

Introduction to Meeting Design
Presented by Charles Holmes
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Time: 9:00am–12:00pm
Location: Robson Square
Building: UBC Robson Square, 800 Robson Street
Room: HSBC Hall,(downstairs)

Registration

Please consider your schedule before you register! Late cancellations and no-shows have a negative impact on the AAPS PD Program. You can follow this link to register for this session.

We will also be offering this program at Point Grey Campus on December 5, 2019.

All registered participants will receive a confirmation email. The AAPS PD Program is exclusively for members of AAPS.

Cancellations: Please remember all events are costly to set up, even those which are offered at no charge. If you do not anticipate attending the session to registered for, please cancel in a timely manner by emailing aaps.pd@ubc.ca. We encourage you to contact us with any questions about the AAPS PD Program.

Photography: Please be advised that photos may be taken at this event for use in AAPS communications materials