This facilitate a meeting training gives the tools to turn this often time consuming moment into a collective efficiency lever. Over a full day, you work on framing (objective, format, participants), animation (opening, speech distribution, time management) and closure (decisions, next steps). A skill with strong leverage on team time.
A well framed meeting is worth more than five vague ones in a row
For managers, project leaders and facilitators in French speaking Switzerland, the cost of a failed meeting counts in cumulative hours. The course relies on concrete canvases (agenda, minutes, decision formats) and situations. You leave with a toolbox ready to apply at next meeting.
Meetings occupy an important share of professional time and concentrate many frustrations on work organization. This course offers a structured approach for those who want to upskill on this transversal practice, complementing technical skills of their job. In Geneva and Lausanne, managers and project leaders quickly find a leverage effect on their team’s time.
A useful meeting starts with three clear choices: objective, format (info, decision, brainstorming, alignment) and participants. The course offers a quick framing grid before each invitation. A discipline that already significantly reduces wasted time and meetings opened for nothing.
A good agenda explicits each item’s objective, expected result and allocated time. The course details these criteria with before-after examples. With particular attention to upstream sending, condition for participants’ preparation. A polished agenda transforms the meeting before it even starts.
Speech distribution, dominant management, silent integration, digression treatment: facilitation skills that train. The course offers simple techniques (round, post-it, short writing, silent vote) tested in situation. You leave with a usable toolbox from the next meeting.
A meeting without decision or traceability creates discussion reruns. The course details decision formats (consensus, consultation, delegation), commitment formulation and minimal useful minute format. A rigor often absent that changes collective rhythm.
Beyond animation, the course questions each meeting’s necessity. A simple matrix (info, decision, alignment) helps choose between meeting, email, shared doc or short exchange. An often liberating approach that returns hours to the team and improves cooperation quality.
Managers, project leaders, facilitators, support functions who animate or attend meetings regularly. In Geneva and Lausanne, the course welcomes profiles from tertiary, industry, healthcare, international organizations and public sector. No specific prerequisite other than regular meeting practice.
You frame a meeting in five minutes before each invitation, prepare an agenda that makes the meeting shorter than before, animate by holding speech distribution and timing, conclude with clear traced commitments. You leave with a kit (agenda canvas, express minute model, decision matrix) and an action plan on two or three rituals to install in your team.
At ITTA centers in Geneva and Lausanne, this course runs over one day with an operational management trainer. Format with concise theory, workshops, situations and action plan. Each participant arrives with two or three recurring meetings to rework. Format alternates short theory inputs, individual workshop time on your real recurring meetings, and peer feedback rounds. Beyond the day, you keep editable canvases for agendas, minutes, decision matrices and a clear plan to introduce the changes in your team progressively.
A weekly committee that goes from one hour to thirty minutes without losing anything. A project framing workshop that produces traced decisions instead of open questions. A performance review that leads to precise commitments. The course addresses these common situations working on your own recurring meetings brought at the start.
This training combines well with remote meeting (course 14076) for remote specifics, professional communication (course 14075) for foundations, and active listening (course 14078) for animation posture. Many participants enroll in one of these courses according to their daily dominant format.
Meeting quality directly impacts team performance and engagement. Better-run meetings free hours per week, but they also signal respect, structure and seriousness. The course briefly opens this dimension to articulate the practice with broader managerial habits.
The return on investment of a meeting course is among the highest in the soft skills catalog. A manager animating five recurring meetings per week saves hours weekly with the techniques presented. Beyond time, the qualitative gain on engagement and decision quality is significant and often visible from the second week back.
Does it cover remote meetings?
Yes, remote specifics are integrated (channels, screen sharing, remote participation management). For more, ITTA proposes a dedicated remote meeting course.
For which profiles?
Any profile animating or attending meetings regularly: managers, project leaders, facilitators, support functions. The course adapts to your operational frame.
Need to know agile?
No. The course is generalist and compatible with classic and agile rituals (stand up, retrospective).
How many meetings will I rework?
You work in depth on two or three recurring meetings (framing, agenda, format) and skim others in short workshops. You leave with a kit ready to apply from the following week.
Do we work on personal meetings?
Yes, strongly encouraged. Bring two or three recurring meetings you wish to rework.
Does it integrate AI tools in meetings?
Yes, a panorama of current tools is integrated (automatic summary, AI action tracking, transcription).
Leave with concrete canvases?
Yes: agenda template, express minute, decision matrix, meeting review grid, team meeting charter model.
Are there templates available after the course?
Yes, all canvases used in course are shared as editable files: agenda template, express minute, decision matrix, team meeting charter.
What about meeting fatigue and Zoom fatigue?
The course addresses these specifically, with concrete techniques to reduce fatigue: shorter formats, asynchronous alternatives, breaks integration, video-off rules.
Where do sessions take place?
ITTA has three centers: in Geneva (Carouge, Route des Jeunes 35), in Lausanne at the Flon (Rue des Côtes de Montbenon 16) and at Lausanne Mon-Repos (Avenue de Mon-repos 24). The training is also available in virtual classroom.
Monday to Friday
8:30 AM to 6:00 PM
Tel. 058 307 73 00
ITTA
Route des jeunes 35
1227 Carouge, Suisse
Monday to Friday, from 8:30 am to 06:00 pm.
