Make your meetings efficient, effective and enjoyable to run and attend
Meetings Mastery: Run and Attend Meetings Efficiently
What you’ll learn
- Identify and handle the four key types of business meetings.
- Plan and run meetings that stay focused, productive, and on time.
- Know exactly when to cancel, shorten, or skip a meeting entirely.
- Assign roles, set agendas, and follow up effectively — without nagging.
- Stay confident and calm in difficult meetings or with senior stakeholders.
- Handle common meeting challenges: latecomers, dominators, silence, and conflict.
- And much much more!.
Course Content
- Introduction – What Even Is a Meeting? –> 3 lectures • 8min.
- Planning the Perfect Meeting –> 7 lectures • 19min.
- Running the Room –> 6 lectures • 13min.
- When You’re Not the Chair –> 5 lectures • 12min.
- Dealing With Humans –> 4 lectures • 9min.
- Chaos Control –> 6 lectures • 18min.
- If It All Goes a Bit Pear-Shaped –> 4 lectures • 11min.
- Long-Term Meeting Strategies –> 5 lectures • 13min.
- Wrap Up –> 1 lecture • 3min.
Requirements
Meetings Mastery: Run and Attend Meetings Efficiently
Make your meetings efficient, effective and enjoyable to run and attend
Tired of wasting hours in meetings that go nowhere?
Do you leave meetings thinking, “That could have been an email”? Or worse — unsure what was decided, what you’re supposed to do next, or why you were even invited in the first place?
You’re not alone. Meetings have become one of the biggest time drains in the modern workplace — but they don’t have to be.
In this course, you’ll learn how to transform every meeting you run or attend. Whether you’re a manager leading a project team, or a team member trying to stay productive and sane, this course will show you how to make meetings more efficient, more effective, and yes — even more enjoyable.
You’ll learn how to stay on track, make real decisions, and wrap up meetings with clear outcomes and follow-ups. We’ll cover how to stop the endless rambling, manage tricky personalities, handle conflict, and even survive long meetings without losing your mind.
This course is packed with practical strategies and tools to help you:
- Stay focused and avoid time-wasting
- When to cancel a meeting altogether,
- How to set clear agendas that actually get followed
- How to assign roles so people show up prepared and engaged.
- Contribute with confidence, even if you’re not leading
- Handle latecomers, dominant voices, or awkward silences
- Make hybrid and remote meetings run smoothly
- Create a culture of better meetings across your team
What would it mean for your workday and company profits if even half your meetings were better? Less stress, better decisions, clearer communication — and more time to focus on the work that actually matters.
Your instructor, Chris Croft, is one of the UK’s most experienced and popular business trainers. With decades of experience in project management, leadership, and productivity, Chris has taught over 30 online courses and trained thousands of professionals around the world. His teaching style is practical, engaging, and always rooted in real-world business experience.
If you want to stop dreading meetings and start making them work for you, your team, and your business — this course is for you.
Join now and start mastering your meetings today.