Founder-led training programme
Effective Meeting Design & Facilitation
Design meetings around a real purpose, useful participation, explicit decisions and accountable action after people leave.
Build a practical meeting system that clarifies purpose, decision rights, facilitation choices, action ownership and when a meeting is unnecessary.
Duration: ½ to 1 Day.
One recurring or high-value meeting requiring redesign.
Format: Public Online · Private Tutor-Led · On-Demand.
Purpose design, facilitation, decision rights and action capture.
Level: beginner.
A meeting charter, agenda and facilitator run sheet.
Overview
What this programme covers
Test whether a meeting is needed, then design its purpose, authority, participation and follow-through around real work.
A meeting is expensive whenever several people stop other work, but cost alone does not make it useful. Meetings drift when the purpose is broad, decision rights are hidden, participation is accidental and actions leave without ownership. This programme helps chairs, facilitators and contributors redesign those conditions. Participants diagnose a recurring meeting, decide whether synchronous discussion is necessary, define the outcome and authority, build a purposeful agenda, and practise facilitation with competing views. They create a meeting charter, agenda and facilitator run sheet supported by decision and action capture. The programme develops practical meeting judgement rather than prescribing one routine for every team. It does not guarantee shorter meetings, agreement or delivery. Organisational decisions, employee matters, records and follow-through remain subject to the relevant authority and policy.
Evidence standard
Evidence and learning boundaries
Learning is evidenced through the redesigned meeting, clarity of decision rights, observed facilitation choices and completeness of decision and action capture. Attendance does not prove changed meeting culture, and the programme does not promise shorter meetings, agreement, delivery or recovered time.
Learning outcomes
What participants will learn
Participants should leave able to redesign and facilitate a meeting without confusing attendance with useful contribution.
Decide whether a proposed meeting requires synchronous discussion or can be handled through another route.
Define meeting purpose, output, decision rights, participants, preparation and time boundaries.
Design an agenda that supports useful participation, evidence, challenge and an explicit decision path.
Facilitate competing views while protecting time, psychological safety, authority and constructive challenge.
Produce a meeting charter, agenda and run sheet with decision and action capture.
Programme structure
Programme modules
The sequence covers meeting need, purpose and authority, facilitation under challenge, and decision and action capture.
Decide whether to meet
Participants examine a recurring meeting and identify the work it is meant to accomplish. They distinguish information sharing, discussion, coordination, decision and relationship needs, then test whether synchronous time is justified. The exercise removes meetings that lack a useful purpose without assuming every complex issue can be resolved asynchronously.
Design purpose and decision rights
The cohort defines the intended output, the person with decision authority, necessary contributors and preparation. Participants create agenda items around questions or choices rather than broad topics. Time is allocated according to the work required, and attendees can understand why their presence and contribution matter.
Facilitate participation and challenge
Participants practise opening, guiding and closing a discussion with competing views. They use questions, summaries and process interventions to surface evidence, prevent domination and keep the group oriented to purpose. Facilitation does not erase hierarchy or authority; it makes the route to contribution and decision more explicit.
Capture decisions and accountable action
The final module records what was decided, what remains unresolved and which actions have owners, due conditions and dependencies. Participants complete a meeting charter, agenda and facilitator run sheet, then define how meeting value and follow-through will be reviewed without creating another reporting ritual afterward.
Audience
Who this is for
Designed for people who shape meeting purpose, process, decisions or the work that follows.
Managers and team leaders responsible for recurring meetings and decisions.
Project and programme professionals coordinating important work across several organisational roles.
Facilitators guiding discussions with competing evidence, interests or decision authority responsibly.
Contributors who want clearer preparation, participation and accountable follow-through expectations consistently.
Fit check
Pause before booking when
Teams seeking a guaranteed reduction in meeting hours or immediate agreement.
Participants expecting facilitation training to replace mediation, investigation or formal consultation.
Organisations unwilling to clarify decision authority, action ownership and relevant policy boundaries.
Delivery and pricing
Choose the route that fits the cohort
Scope reflects the meeting context, cohort, format, equipment, sensitive boundaries and planned practice.
Delivery
Private online meeting lab
A virtual meeting lab lets participants redesign and facilitate an approved forum using its purpose, decision route and expected output. Access, observation and confidentiality arrangements reflect the organisational case chosen for practice.
Delivery
On-site facilitation workshop
An in-person facilitation workshop uses a realistic room arrangement and observed interventions. Equipment, scenario design and sensitive-topic exclusions are agreed so practice does not draw an active employee matter into general discussion.
Delivery
Meeting-system preparation
The sponsor prepares authorised agendas, outputs and perspectives from one recurring meeting. Confidential decisions can be anonymised or replaced with a constructed scenario that retains the relevant participation and authority challenge.
Delivery
Meeting-value review
A meeting-system review may examine later agendas, decisions, participation, actions and unnecessary load before the charter changes. It assists learning without guaranteeing recovered time, consensus or delivery of recorded actions.
£195 to £295
Public Online
A published meeting-design cohort contains the stated teaching, facilitation practice and participant resources associated with that session.
£1,800 to £2,800
Private Tutor-Led
Private workshop value reflects the forum selected, role mix, observation method, location, equipment and safeguards for sensitive organisational material.
£79 to £129
On-Demand
Facilitating a live organisational meeting or evaluating its governance requires a separate scope beyond the learning activities purchased here.
Founder-led delivery
Tobi Akiode
Founder-led facilitation focused on meeting purpose, decision rights, constructive participation and accountable follow-through.
Tobi Akiode develops meeting capability through purpose testing, decision authority, participation, agenda design and accountable capture. Chairs and contributors practise interventions on a suitable meeting case while organisational decisions, employee matters, official records, confidentiality and action ownership remain with authorised people.
Meeting discovery selects a recurring forum and clarifies what participants may safely practise. The workshop develops design and facilitation judgement without becoming mediation, investigation, formal consultation or a substitute for the organisation’s decision and record-keeping processes.
Questions
What buyers usually ask before booking
Clarify duration, difficult participation, meeting removal, participant outputs and written delivery details.
Does the programme recommend a standard meeting length?
No single duration suits every purpose. Participants decide what work needs synchronous time, who must contribute and how the agenda supports the output. The objective is proportionate meeting design, not an arbitrary number. Any duration or cadence used by a cohort should follow its context and evidence.
How are difficult or dominant participants handled?
Participants practise process interventions such as clarifying purpose, inviting relevant evidence, summarising, time-boxing and naming the decision route. Facilitation should protect constructive participation without pretending hierarchy or conduct concerns have disappeared. Active bullying, grievance or safeguarding matters belong in the organisation’s authorised process outside training.
Can the programme help us remove meetings?
Yes, participants test whether each selected meeting requires synchronous discussion and identify work that could move to another route. The programme does not promise a fixed reduction because meeting need depends on the organisation’s decisions, coordination and risks. Removal should not conceal necessary consultation or governance.
What meeting documents will participants produce?
Participants create a meeting charter, agenda and facilitator run sheet supported by decision and action capture. These are working learning tools for responsible use, not a mandated governance model. Organisational authority, employee consultation, records and follow-through remain subject to the relevant policies and authorised decision-makers afterward.
What influences the fee for meeting-facilitation training?
The meeting context, participant roles, practice environment, room or platform needs, sensitivity boundaries and any subsequent review determine the work required. A commercial statement records the fee, applicable VAT, included exercises, preparation and exclusions before the sponsor approves delivery. The sponsor can resolve practical omissions before booking.
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