Engaging and inclusive meetings

This workshop will provide you with insights and tools than can help you facilitate engaging and inclusive meetings. 


Why should you attend?

On average we spend approx 21 hours a week in meetings. Meetings are an activity that we spend a lot of time on in our working lives. They are an important arena for collaboration and decision-making, and at their best, they can help us create results. 

This workshops is for all managers at Aarhus University including chair and vice chair of committees and will focus on:

  • Practical tools for designing and planning meetings and workshops that contribute to ownership, inclusion and ensure decisions.
  • Concrete involvement methods and good facilitation techniques to open and close meetings.
  • The leader's role as a facilitator of inclusive processes and the art of balancing the leadership role with the facilitator role.
  • Space to discuss and connect the conveyed methods to specific meetings or similar situations from your daily praxis.

Program for the day

9:00 Facilitation and inclusive processes

Facilitation and the role of leadership in facilitation

Involvement: how, when, and what is the playing field – method presentation and work with your own case

Involvement and connection to the theme of gender equality, diversity, and inclusion
12:00 Lunch
12:45 Designing inclusive processes

Involvement methods, how to strengthen engagement and motivation – inspirational presentation and dialogue and working with your own case.

Handling unforeseen situations and resistance in meetings and workshops – inspirational presentation and dialogue

Conclusion and further process

14:15 End of program

We look forward to an active day where we together will be working on how your meetings can become even more inclusive and engaging.