Unleash Your Meeting Potential™

Did you know that high-functioning, effective meetings are a powerful enabler to achieving professional success and achieving your goals and projects?

Meetings are the most common business activity in every industry around the world. They’re also one of the greatest sources of anxiety, frustration and stress and they might be holding you back from achieving success. This is because participants often express that they feel their time isn’t valued, meetings fail to produce valuable results, and you might be missing countless opportunities to advance your projects and demonstrate your skills.

Fortunately, Unleash Your Meeting Potential™ has been designed to set you up for success. This course provides you with all of the knowledge and best practices you need to skillfully plan, lead and follow up on meetings that add significant value each and every time.

This course reviews all of the key activities to maximize the effectiveness of every meeting. We’ll walk through a simple, straightforward methodology called The 3 Step Meeting Framework™. This approach can be applied to every industry including healthcare, finance, automotive, legal, manufacturing, transportation, construction, research, energy, IT, aerospace, communications, etc.

Upon completion of this course, you will have all of the knowledge you need to transform your meetings, reach a level of meeting mastery, and use these skills to take your projects and career to new heights.

I’ll invite you to watch the free preview videos so that you know the level of detail you’ll get in this program that includes:

• Defining your meeting purpose, objectives, and expected outcomes
• Identifying and inviting the right people
• Selecting the right meeting format to maximize the engagement of your participants
• Determining the meeting logistics, and developing a clear meeting appointment
• Creating an effective meeting agenda, and setting up your meeting in advance with clear expectations to allow for effective discussions
• Leading and facilitating productive meetings with your stakeholders
• Documenting key decisions, action items, and next steps in powerful meeting minutes that can be shared
• Developing follow-up communications and holding your participants accountable for the identified action items
• And much more....

Meet Your Course Instructor

My name is Natalie Berkiw-Scenna. Let me offer you a warm welcome to Unleash Your Meeting Potential™!

• I’m a senior-level project management consultant (PMP) and have lead thousands of high-functioning meetings over the last 22 years and counting.
• My book Unleash Your Meeting Potential™: A Comprehensive Guide to Leading Effective Meetings is sold by book retailers around the world.
• I’ve taught this course material to multiple Masters of Business (MBA) programs at universities and colleges in both Canada and the United States.
• I’ve also presented this material as a speaker at various conferences and educational events including the International Project Management Day Conference 2021 put on by the International Institute for Learning.
• And, I’ve developed the easy methodology and approach called The 3 Step Meeting Framework™ to save you from years of learning the hard way, and to set you up for success.

Alright, let me ask you: Are you ready to transform your meetings? If your answer is “YES!”, then it’s time to take action. Join me on this journey today! I’ll see you inside the course, and I can’t wait to personally welcome you to the Unleash Your Meeting Potential™ program. See you soon!

If you’re required to lead meetings at work, you’ll find this course is designed for you. Roles such as consultants, project managers, engineers, business analysts, strategists, managers and team leaders, sales or administrative professionals, improvement experts, and students preparing for employment will find this to be ideal for you.

1. "Highly professional and valuable course! Additional thanks for the downloadable material!" ~ Vitalii Baglaiev
2. "This course was a perfect match for me, I learnt a lot. Thanks Ma'am" ~ Julius Gamy
3. "The material in this course will be invaluable to me as I organize my future meetings with much more attention than I have in the past. I look forward to my meetings being more effective because of this knowledge. Thank you for this excellent educational opportunity Natalie!" ~ Christine Wells
4. "This course has really opened my eyes to the opportunities that a well planned meeting can have. Everything is very clearly laid out and the companion workbook is very helpful." ~ Ron Leblanc
5. "This course taught me important, new concepts while also reminding me of the basics needed for a well planned meeting. My meetings have been running much more smoothly since taking this course. Thank you Natalie for all of your valuable insights!" ~ Jean Beaton
6. "This course was AMAZING!! I have been facilitating meetings for over 10 years and cannot believe how many pieces I have missed. After taking this course I was able to lead far more successful meetings but most importantly I have been leading meetings with tangible outcomes and results!!!! Thank you Thank you Thank you Natalie for making this course engaging, fun, exciting and providing me with the tools I needed to oush my career to the next level!!! I have been applying so many of your tips and tricks and have already had executives tell me how much they appreciate the effort I put in!!! I highly recommend anyone one who is new to facilitating meetings or even a seasoned professional to take this course! You won't be disappointed and it really will set you apart!!!" ~ Christine Iellamo
7. This is an excellent course. I’m fairly new at leading meetings which has caused me some stress and frustration. This course has given me an abundance of knowledge in the entire process of leading a successful meeting (which can at times be daunting). I definitely recommend this course to anyone who is looking to improve the effectiveness of their meetings and gain a new confidence in their career. The video lessons were brimming with many great tips and advice. Natalie has clearly put a lot of time and effort into this course." ~ Humberto M

Upon completion of this course, you will have all of the knowledge you need to transform your meetings, reach a level of meeting mastery, and use these skills to take your projects and career to new heights.

1. Defining your meeting purpose, objectives, and expected outcomes.
2. Identifying the right people to invite, and determining the right format for your meeting.
3. Identifying the logistics and developing a clear meeting appointment.
4. Developing a clear, sequenced agenda, and any other resources and tools for the meeting.
5. Circulating a pre-meeting communication and package to set expectations and prepare your participants.
6. Setting up your meeting for success and leading a highly effective discussion.
7. Developing meeting minutes, a summary or action log to track the discussion, actions, and next steps.
8. Circulating a follow-up meeting communications and package to hold everyone accountable.
9. Evaluating your meeting outcomes and process, and applying your lessons learned going forward.

In this course, you'll be required to complete a series of videos that walk you through all the sequenced steps and activities you should do before, during, and after a meeting to set yourself up for success. A workbook is available to you to follow along, and an optional quiz you can complete at the end to help reinforce your learning.