• Cancellation Policy

Seminar Description

Overview

On many engineering teams, meetings are one of the principal means of getting work done. They also use up thousands of people-hours. Team meetings can be productive and enjoyable or they can be frustrating, time-wasting and filled with conflict.

Appropriate planning and attention to some basic considerations during the meeting can make the difference between wasting time and being productive. All team members and leaders can contribute to making meetings effective and the skills and tools presented in this seminar will be useful to both leaders and team members.

Participants will learn and experience how to:

• Pre-plan meetings to meet the needs of all attending,
• Create and time an agenda,
• How to set the room up for maximum productivity,
• Facilitate a meeting for full team involvement,
• Use techniques to involve everyone in the meeting,
• Make better decisions as a team,
• Use process reviews to improve meetings,
• Record meeting discussions and decisions.

Outline Agenda

1. Introduction to meetings – the good and the bad
2. Planning interactive meetings to meet desired outcomes
3. Roles in meetings – facilitating and recording
4. Decision-making in meetings
5. Improving meeting skills
6. Practice in planning and running meetings
7. Avoiding common traps
8. Evaluating and improving
9. Follow-up
10. Action planning to implement ideas learned

Instructor:

Gary Robinson, P.Eng., E. M. Sciences Ltd

Gary Robinson is president of E.M. Sciences Ltd, a management-consulting firm formed in 1975 to meet the needs of project-oriented businesses. Services include organization development and culture change, management training and coaching, collaborative project planning, work redesign, team building, project partnering processes, project management consultation and critique, strategic planning, conflict resolution and continuous productivity and quality improvement. The purpose of his consulting is to increase the productivity of teams, organizations and managers in ways that will also improve the quality of working life for the people in the organization

Gary has a Master of Science in Engineering and a Master of Science in Organization Development. Partly as a result of his first career as an engineering manager, most of his work is done with projects or with companies whose services and products are delivered as projects. His clients in Canada, the United States, England, India, Korea and Australia have included engineering companies, architectural firms, contractors, manufacturers, federal and provincial governments and crown corporations, city governments, high tech research firms, software design companies, banks, oil companies, universities, hospitals, community agencies, and a variety of voluntary organizations.

He is a member of the Organization Development network, Project Management Institute, and the Association of Professional Engineers of British Columbia. He is also a Master Trainer in Relationship Awareness Theory for Personal Strengths Publishing.

Cancellation Policy

Registered attendees unable to attend the event may designate a substitute, provided APEGBC receives written notification at least one business day prior to the event. Registration information for the substitute attendee should accompany the notice. If notice of cancellation of registration is received:

•  5 business days or more prior to the event, a refund will be processed
•  Less than 5 business days prior to the event, no refunds apply

Substitute registrants are permitted up to the day of the seminar and member/non-member fees will be applied. The organizers reserve the right to cancel the event if less than the minimum required participants have registered. Liability limited to registration fee.

APEGBC is an AIBC/CES registered provider offering an AIBC-Accredited activity for 7 Core Learning Units.

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