There is nothing wrong with meetings per se. Where people work together, there is always a lot of discussion. One cannot avoid that. Yet it is strange that in almost every organization many hours are spent every day talking, while one rarely thinks about the effectiveness of all that talking ...

Why is it that in almost every meeting some of the participants count for nothing? What is the danger of 'coming just in time' and what can you do about it? Why does creative brainstorming hardly ever deliver the expected result, and what are the alternative strategies? Why are participants not prepared sufficiently and how do you solve this once and for all? And how big would the gain be if conversations no longer derail and people never stray from the subject...?

The past 1.5 year, online meetings and presentations became the new normal, but digital meetings have their own practical laws. It is essential to connect with your audience, but how do you do that if you are only connected via cable or WiFi? Non-verbal elements help to convince others, but what’s left of body language if the other party is looking at you on a 13″ screen? How do you extend the attention span of participants who are constantly enticed by distractions on their screens and the world around them?

The problems are often obvious. Yet few companies manage to really adjust the prevailing meeting culture.

During this inspiring seminar, Gunnar explains how to recognize unnecessary meetings and how to make necessary meetings more effective in the future. You’ll learn how to maximise the effect of your digital meetings and how to increase your personal impact on the participants.

Using recognizable, often funny examples, Gunnar provides a refreshing insight into your current way of working. From there, he provides simple but useful meeting rules that make all your meetings more effective.