Mastering Meeting Leadership

🎯 Goal: Student can effectively chair meetings using sophisticated facilitation language and diplomatic conflict resolution techniques

📐 Chairing and Facilitation Language

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#meetings#leadership#facilitation

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Let's talk about running meetings before we dive in. I'm curious how you handle a room full of people with different agendas.

“What's the most frustrating thing that can happen when someone chairs a meeting badly?”

“Do you think reaching consensus is always the best goal, or is a strong decision sometimes better?”

“If you could ban one type of behaviour that derails discussions, what would it be?”

“Would you rather chair a tense meeting or quietly attend one?”

“Imagine a meeting hits a total impasse — how would you personally break it?”

Fresh topic questions — none repeat until you have seen them all

🎲 Speaking Activity 1

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Would You Rather

Choose one option and justify it out loud using the lesson vocabulary.

6 minutes

🗣️ “I would rather ... because ...”

Would you rather chair a meeting that always reaches consensus but takes hours, or one that ends in ten minutes with no agreement?

🎲 Speaking Activity 2

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What Would Happen If...?

Speculate about each scenario. Think about consequences in two different areas, like work and your team's morale.

6 minutes

🗣️ “If that happened, I think...”

🌀 IMAGINE… #1

What would happen if every meeting in your company had no chairperson at all?

Speculate freely — there is no wrong answer.