Basic Facilitation Skills: How to Run Effective Meetings

Explore ways to run team meetings, staff meetings, or other meetings that are effective in meeting your program’s or agency’s goals. Many people feel that they spend too much time in meetings and never get around to their jobs. The reality is that if meetings are run efficiently and result in action steps with follow through they help everyone feel much more productive in their jobs. Explore basic approaches and ingredients to facilitating an effective meeting structure.

Instructor Pamela Parkinson, PhD, LCSW, is a licensed clinical psychologist and a licensed clinical social worker with over 26 years in the field of providing services to children and families. Dr. Parkinson been trained in two disciplines (psychology and social work) and has worked as a residential counselor, a teaching assistant for special education, and a recreation specialist in residential treatment. Additionally, she has worked in the full continuum of services from residential and non-public school to community-based services such as outpatient clinics, school-based programs, diversion, kinship, etc.