• Are people paying more attention to their smart-phones than the agenda? 
• Are the key stakeholders showing up and fully engaged? 
• How do you prevent and manage conflict?
• Would you like some new arrows in your quiver when it comes to facilitating as a project manager?

Business is becoming more complex and stressful with ever-changing technology, acquisitions, mergers and the constant demand of the bottom line. Plus there are so many distractions. Project Managers do so many different things…and they are supposed to also convene and facilitate incredible meetings? Yes. 

Facilitation is an art that is often overlooked and misunderstood. You are the source of the power. How are you using your positional & psychological power to make your meetings incredible?
What can you do, practically, to facilitate meetings that people will call “incredible”? What are some methods for handling tough situations, like when you have a senior person on your team and things are not going well? Or you have someone openly opposing someone else.

KEY LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• Techniques for sustaining engagement
• Awareness of the power you have and the power you don’t have
• Ways to prevent destructive conflict
• Ways to make conflict productive

PLAN to TAKE AWAY
1. Techniques for facilitating engaging and incredible meetings
2. 3 ways to handle conflict when facilitating
3. How to get high quality requirements at meetings
4. A renewed confidence in your role as facilitator