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Are you a manager or leader who wants to turn your virtual, face-to-face or hybrid into dynamic, productive, and human work sessions? This course will teach you the best practices and let you apply strategic and powerful tools for generating results and satisfaction. No more boring and useless meetings! You will leave this course with all the confidence and knowledge you need to level up the impact of your meetings.
Audience	Anyone in charge of organizing and leading meetings.
Prerequisites	None
Objectives	Learn best practices and pitfalls to avoid for holding effective meetings. Discover and use technological tools designed to stimulate and organize ideas and decisions during meetings. Explore the technique of role delegation to leverage and mobilize collective intelligence. Learn and apply powerful and strategic Time-Out techniques to deepen and enrich discussion and decision-making.
Teaching method	Through presentations, discussions, discussions, situational exercises, and reflection, workshop content ties in closely to participants’ day-to-day workplace reality to allow for next-day application of learning and skills.
Contents	Best practices for dynamic and productive meetings Revisit the criteria often used to justify meetings, identify best practices to satisfy the real needs of participants and organizations, make meetings more human and time effective. Effective technological tools to support meetings. Learn about tools and solutions for structuring meetings, gaining and holding participant attention, taking note of ideas and decisions, creating easily accessible timeline documents, communicating meeting content to absentees, etc. Powerful technique of role delegation to eliminate participant boredom and disengagement. Discover and apply role delegation to transform meetings into a more human, empowering and stimulating participant experience to maximize collective mobilization of ideas and contributions. Strategic Time-Out techniques to generate more productive discussions. Explore and apply powerful techniques for deepening discussions, fostering dialogue ROI, and turning meeting decisions into real bottom line results for the organization.

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Florence Jacob

Trainer

As a holder of a double bachelor's and master's degree in management from HEC Montréal, Florence has accumulated nearly 10 years of experience as a consultant and specialist in organizational development. Her career in parapublic, public and private organizations has allowed her to perfect her expertise in coaching and leader development. Promoting knowledge sharing and managerial skills transferring is at the heart of her approaches as a consultant. Florence is known as a committed partner. Her support type is dynamic, structured and oriented towards an opened and transparent communication.

Ghislain Parent

Trainer and Professional Efficiency Consultant

Ghislain Parent has more than 30 years of experience in project management in the fields of training, communication, IT and new technologies, including several years as an entrepreneur. Ghislain has worked at AFI Expertise as a professional efficiency trainer and consultant since 2013. He helps people leverage tools such as Office 365, SharePoint, Teams and OneNote, in addition to mobile technologies such as Android and Apple devices.

Janet Lough

Leadership Consultant, Trainer and Coach

A bilingual trainer, facilitator, instructional designer, and coach, Janet Lough supports leaders, managers, and teams in developing their full potential. Known for her authentic, human, and energizing approach, she creates learning experiences that foster both reflection and action. With over 25 years of experience in management, leadership development, communications, operations, and organizational transformation, Janet’s background includes national-level leadership roles in the non-profit sector and entrepreneurship. This diverse experience gives her a deep understanding of organizational realities and the challenges faced by leaders and teams. As an instructional designer and business partner, Janet works closely with her clients to design customized learning journeys and training programs tailored to their context, culture, and objectives. She is recognized for her ability to turn complex organizational challenges into concrete, engaging, and results-oriented learning experiences. A certified Coach (Mozaik, Level 1) and practitioner of SuccessFinder and AtmanCo, Janet leverages her attentive listening skills, presence, and strong interpersonal abilities to help individuals and teams move forward with confidence. Her energy, authenticity, and talent for quickly building trust make her a valued partner in developing human and organizational potential.

Marc Maisonneuve

Training program director

Marc Maisonneuve has acted as a Training Program Director, professional effectiveness trainer and user tools practice leader at AFI for several years. Mr. Maisonneuve is known for his analytical skills, his legendary calm and his undeniable desire to encourage people to develop their skills. He has the ability to present technological solutions in a natural way and to adapt them to the concrete needs of the workplace.

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Data Science

Organizational Strategy

Project Management

Change region

Dynamic and productive meetings

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