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Convince and assert yourself in meetings

Your success strategy for meetings

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Do you know what it's like: you spend a lot of time in meetings but only achieve a fraction of your goals? In this training course, you will learn how to position yourself better, increase your personal effectiveness and assert yourself more convincingly with your concerns. The knowledge about ideal meetings is there, the AI supports your argumentation - but you're struggling to put it into practice. Here you will practise how to achieve the best results in everyday life using practical methods and tools.

Contents

Why so many meetings fail

  • The importance and pitfalls of meetings in the operational reality.
  • Lack of agenda and performance review
  • No focus - no result.
  • Rumor mill, gossip and sustainability.

Hidden rules of the game

  • Recognize and control power and power relations.
  • Who will prevail and how?
  • Relevant group dynamics and team climate.

What is important?

  • Raise your concerns and lead you to your goal.
  • How do you communicate so that you are understood?
  • Consciously control the effect.
  • Communicate, argue and persuade according to type.
  • Integrate those involved and win them over.
  • Communication barriers and difficult colleagues.
  • Recognize, resolve and avoid conflicts.
  • Use early warning systems.
  • Increase effectiveness in meetings and teams.

Recognize and fend off manipulative techniques

  • Dealing confidently with unfair methods and blenders.

Individual case processing

  • Take the opportunity and bring your own real cases from your practice, as a participant or manager of a meeting.

Learning environment

In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.

Your benefit

The attendees ...

  • learn how to pursue and achieve their objectives in a focused manner in meetings and discussions. 
  • influence the success-critical factors for goal- and result-oriented meetings. 
  • develop their personal meeting strategies according to their own strengths and environment. 
  • know the importance and secrets of successful meeting strategies. 
  • can work on their own cases and situations in training and develop solutions. 
  • benefit from individual feedback and one-to-one advice for their personal development and transfer projects. 

Methods

Short theoretical inputs, practical case studies and simulation, individual feedback, work on current cases of the participants in individual and group work.

Recommended for

Specialists and managers, project managers and employees who want to lose less time in meetings and communicate their goals more effectively.

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