Course programme
This intensive one-day training course is fully focused on streamlining your meetings. Effective meetings are not only about working through an agenda, but above all about process control and group dynamics. During the course, you will experience and practise how to chair or participate in meetings as energetically and purposefully as possible. You gain in-depth insight into the different roles at the table, the meeting process itself and how to introduce agenda items sharply.
We provide practical, directly applicable tools to maintain structure and make meetings as productive as possible.
Learning objectives
During the training course, we work practically with the foundations of a strong meeting. We focus on the following key areas:
- Efficiency analysis: discover what meetings actually involve and recognise the factors that make a meeting efficient or inefficient.
- Roles and responsibilities: gain insight into the different roles in a meeting, such as chairperson, minute-taker and participant, and learn how to fulfil these roles effectively.
- Process and objectives: learn how to steer the meeting process and link clear objectives to every meeting.
- Agenda management and reporting: practise introducing agenda items effectively and discover smart techniques for concise, action-oriented minutes.
Target audience
Who is this training course for?
This training course is intended for technicians and technical professionals who regularly participate in or lead meetings and notice that these meetings could be more efficient, sharper and more results-oriented. This includes engineers, project leads, work planners, technical specialists and other professionals who work in projects involving multiple disciplines, dependencies and time pressure.
The training course is particularly suitable for professionals who do not only want to exchange information, but also want to monitor progress, solve problems and reach workable decisions. This is reflected in the cases used during the training, which focus on planning, task allocation, risks, delivery issues, integration challenges and coordination between team members.
Investment and Training Duration
Practical information
The Meeting Skills training course lasts one day. The fee is €567 per person, excluding VAT. Course materials and a certificate of participation are included.
Investment: €567 excluding VAT
Duration: 1 day
Course dates
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The locations
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The benefits
Why choose Dosign Academy?
Meetings in a technical environment are a discipline in their own right. Technical meetings often tend to get lost in detailed content discussions, causing decisions to be delayed or avoided. That is why you need an Effective Meetings training course that understands the typical pitfalls engineers face.
Personal advice and guidance
Whether you are a project lead chairing large multidisciplinary meetings every week, or an engineer who wants to participate in meetings more efficiently, we align the theory with your day-to-day reality and personal learning objectives.
Experienced trainers from industry
Our trainers understand the dynamics of the industrial and technical sector. They know from practical experience why technical project meetings sometimes become difficult and provide pragmatic solutions and meeting techniques that genuinely work on the shop floor and in project environments.
Practice-based approach
You learn meeting skills by doing. This training course therefore focuses on practice and experience. No long theoretical lectures, but active role plays, recognisable cases and techniques you can apply directly in your own meetings the next morning.
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The importance of structured meetings in technical environments
Time is valuable, especially within tight technical project schedules. An inefficient meeting not only costs a great deal of money, but also creates frustration and miscommunication within the team.
By investing in a focused Effective Meetings training course, you ensure that meetings become a means to an end again, rather than an end in themselves. You learn how to get to the core more quickly, activate participants and record decisions clearly. This leads to higher productivity, a better team atmosphere and projects that are completed more quickly.
Would you like to put an end to time-consuming, energy-draining meetings? Register for Dosign Academy’s Effective Meetings training course. Take back control and turn every meeting into a productive, action-oriented session.
