Meetings, Facilitation and Training

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"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."

Mark Twain

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How to make informative, stress-free presentations

Fear of public speaking is not uncommon. Whilst most of us are happy to talk to one or two people in an informal setting, the thought of standing before a large group fills us with horror. However, public speaking skills can be developed, and anyone can learn to give informative and stress-free presentations. If you haven't given a presentation before, or you're nervous about doing so, Click Here for some ideas on making your presentation informative and stress free.

How to deal with difficult meeting or training participants

There is a wide range of behaviours that even the most experienced meeting chairs, facilitators and trainers find difficult to deal with. Using an assertive communication style together with some specific techniques will help you to deal with most difficult people effectively – and the more assertively you behave, the fewer opportunities for disruption present themselves. Click Here for some useful guidelines for dealing with difficult people/behaviour during your meetings/training sessions.

Click the 'play' button below to see US communications coach and author "Diane DiResta" outline 4 useful questioning techniques to make your meetings more productive:

Meetings, Facilitation and Training for Trainers Would you or others in your team benefit from training in Meetings, Facilitation or Training for Trainers? As well as the information and advice availble from the internet and from reading books, there's huge additional benefit to be gained from the interaction, practical exercises and valuable feedback that face-to-face training and coaching gives. In relation to the category of Meetings, Facilitation and Training for Trainers, H2 offers:

We offer a range of open courses within this category. They're held in Central London in convenient locations on a regular basis, and a place costs from just £270 +VAT per person for a 1-day course. Click on the "Open Courses" button above for more details.

We can deliver any of our open course topics at your own premises or at a local venue of your choice. we charge a flat daily fee from £800 +VAT per day (from £700 +VAT for not-for profit organisations), for any number of attendees up to 12 people, dependent only on the location and the duration of the course. Click on the "In-house Courses" button above for more details.

Our bespoke service involves us designing and delivering a tailored course to meet your more individual requirements. Following a short but effective pre-course consultation, we put together a course programme that reflects your specified priorities, and that includes exercises based on real-life case studies/scenarios. This helps us to ensure that the course stays focussed on the issues that are most important to you and your delegates. Click on the "Bespoke Training" button above for more details.

We offer all of our open course topics as 1:1 training. The cost is dependent upon the topic, location and duration and we offer discounts for two or more sessions. For example, the fees for our standard 1:1 training in Central London covering an open course topic (such as "Chairing Effective Meetings") are £550 +VAT. Click on the "1:1 Training" title above for more details.