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Meeting Simulation Exercise - "Monday Meeting" You hate them, but can you manage them? The Monday Meeting simulation gives team members the opportunity to practise vital meeting skills

Monday Meeting: £125

The only time a team can really exercise its teamness is in meetings and get-togethers.  Even with a good decision¬making system, meetings can be very bloody!  The Monday Meeting simulation has been designed to give team members the opportunity to practise some vital meeting skills such as:

• Chairing
• Structuring and controlling discussions
• Influencing
• Listening to others
• Consensus-seeking and decision-making

Each participant is given an instructions card and a meeting agenda.  A chairperson (the Department Head) is appointed and receives some information cards to help him/her lead the meeting.  The other participants (Section Heads) also get information cards so they can participate in the discussion of each agenda item.  The chairperson must lead the 45 minute meeting to decide on three agenda items:

• An office computer budget for the coming year
• The allocation of temporary staff for the summer period
• Recommendations on how to improve the company newsletter

This is not a role-play exercise.  Each participant is encouraged to use the information they have to defend their position but, at the same time, to try and ensure that the team reaches the meeting goals.  The simulation allows a team to pinpoint all the classic meeting pitfalls and to plan for their elimination.

Training Objectives:

• To demonstrate the need for structuring and controlling team meetings
• To allow groups to practise meeting skills such as: Chairing, Influencing, Listening, Consensus-Seeking and Decision-Making

Time:

90 minutes

Monday Meeting: £125