Many meetings waste time as there has been insufficient preparation. This can lead to busy participants refusing invitations to meetings in future and make it more difficult to achieve agreements and maintain progress on projects. To avoid this, good preparation … Continue reading Seven key things that you need to do to prepare for meetings
Effective meetings achieve their objectives. Participants leave with a sense of achievement and know what will happen next as a result of the meeting. Characteristics of effective meetings are outlined below. The objectives of the meeting are clear. An agenda … Continue reading What is an effective meeting?
About this course This course is on how meetings can be effective. It shows how you can plan, manage and follow up on meetings to ensure that they achieve their objectives. We use meetings to share information and discuss and … Continue reading EME01 Effective Meetings
This course is about developing effective reports. It shows how to develop a brief, gather and analyse data, and write this up into a well structured easy-to-understand report. We use reports to present and analyse information to enable us to … Continue reading ERE01 Effective Reports
About this course This course is about how to manage projects effectively. It shows how you can plan, manage and close out projects in a way that ensures they achieve their objectives. Projects are undertaken as a way of achieving … Continue reading EPM01 Effective Project Management
About this course This course is about effective feasibility studies. It shows how to develop a feasibility study brief, carry out feasibility studies and investigations and write this up in a format that enables decisions to be made. Projects and … Continue reading EFS01 Effective Feasibility Studies
About this course This course is about rainwater harvesting in small buildings and, in housing, in particular. It describes how rainwater harvesting systems can be designed and installed in buildings to supplement or replace, municipal water supplies. In many areas … Continue reading RWH01 Rainwater Harvesting
About this course The course is about adapting built environments to climate change. It describes changes in climate that are projected under global warming and provides guidance on how these can be addressed in buildings. What this course offers The … Continue reading DCA01 Designing for Climate Change Adaption
About this course The course is about how carbon emissions associated with built environments can be reduced to mitigate climate change. About 40% of the global carbon emissions are attributed to buildings and construction. The course describes measures such as … Continue reading DCM01 Designing for Climate Change Mitigation
About this course The course on how to develop and run effective meetings. It shows how you can plan, manage and follow up on meetings to ensure that they achieve their objectives. We use meetings to share information and discuss … Continue reading EME01 Effective Meetings