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How to Have Impact In Meetings
This short, practical workshop supports professionals in making their voices count during meetings—whether in person, online or hybrid. It focuses on building the confidence and clarity needed to speak up, structure contributions and influence effectively. Participants explore common barriers to being heard, develop preparation habits and emotional intelligence-based communication tools, and leave with a strategy for navigating different meeting formats and personalities.
Key Training Features:
• Common internal and external barriers to being heard in meetings
• Building presence and preparation strategies using the Meeting Map tool
• Verbal tools like flagging, bridging and TED-style statements
• Emotional intelligence (EQ) techniques: listening, summarising, power questions
• Adjusting presence and delivery across online, hybrid and face-to-face formats
• Understanding and managing difficult meeting personas
• Psychological safety principles
Who Can Attend:
All professionals who attend or lead meetings as part of their role. Ideal for team leaders, project leads, policy officers and public sector staff seeking more confidence and influence in meetings—especially in hybrid working contexts.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this workshop, you will:
- Understand the common barriers that get in the way of being heard in meetings
- Build confidence in sharing your ideas clearly, assertively and with impact
- Learn practical tools & techniques to stay present, think on your feet and speak up
- Develop strategies to navigate both virtual, hybrid and in-person meetings with ease
- Connect with different — and even difficult — meeting personas
Summary
Duration
10:00 - 13:00
Price
Available to be delivered In-House. Contact us for a quotation.
Location
Civil Service College, Westminster, London
Lead Trainer
Tom Bryant
Tom is a global consultant, advisor and coach to the private and public sectors on Leadership Development, Digital & Workplace Transformation and Successful Change.
Read BioTom Bryant
Tom Bryant is a distinguished expert with over 25 years of experience leading large-scale change initiatives and developing impactful learning programs for FTSE 100 companies and several world governments.
Tom holds a Master’s in HR from the US and began his career at Accenture as a Talent & Organisation Performance Consultant. He later joined the British Government's Cabinet Office (Government Digital Services) as a Senior Advisor, where he led digital skill transformation initiatives. He published the first-ever detailed Digital Skills Matrix for Civil Servants and helped establish the British Government’s first ever internal Digital Academies. Tom has also advised the governments of Malaysia, India, and Jersey on their digital capabilities.
Currently, Tom focuses on consulting in AI and Generative AI integration and transformation. He advises clients in government, higher education, financial services, and defence on AI strategy and capability building. Tom is dedicated to helping organisations and governments navigate change and develop adaptive resilience in the age of Artificial Intelligence.
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