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Leading Effective Meetings: Beginner's Guide (Udemy.com)

Learn how to successfully lead meetings that boost motivation and productivity while using time effectively

Created by: Markus Amanto

Last updated November 2025

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What you will learn

  • Plan a meeting including who to invite and why, meeting duration and any preparation needed
  • Create an agenda for the meeting that boosts engagement, makes good use of time and achieves the results desired
  • Lead well structured meetings including how to start, improve participation and how to end
  • Set up ground rules for your meetings that increase productivity and make use of proven decision making methods
  • Prepare a room or space for effective meetings both for face to face meetings and virtual ones

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Course Description

If you want to become better at running meetings that engage participants and achieve the intended results, then this course is for you. Leading Effective Meetings: Beginner's Guide introduces you to the skills of meeting management. In this course, you’ll learn how to plan and lead meetings that get the job done and that people want to attend, and you’ll learn how to do it in a way that’s both informative and engaging.

In this course, you will:

● Learn how plan a successful meeting
● Craft an agenda for a productive meeting
● Set up a meeting structure that improves communication and results
● Create guidelines for your meetings to boost engagement
● Choose the best decision making method for different situations
● Get tips on how set up a good meeting environment, for both physical and virtual meetings

This course is also filled with activities that allow you to practice what you’re learning. Work with me over six different exercises to allow you to excel in the different parts of how to run an effective meeting.

You will also get both checklists for meetings as well as proven strategies for effective meetings.

Why Learn How to Lead Effective Meetings

Learning how to lead meetings effectively can benefit you professionally as you gain both communication skills and people skills as well as a reputation for being a person whose meetings people actually will look forward to attending. It is an excellent skill for managers of different kinds to improve results and boost your career prospects as a management professional.

Why Learn From Me

Learning how to lead effective and productive meetings can be challenging and complex. To navigate this maze,
you need combine both people skills and the ability to prepare and execute a successful meeting structure.

This course brings my teaching experience and industry know-how to you. I’ve taught leadership, communication and how to lead effective meetings for over 30 years, and I have also been a manager of teams different sizes in several parts of the globe. My teaching style is unique because it combines my extensive experience with humor and a deep care for your success.

By the end of the course, you will confidently be able to run good meetings that people actually enjoying being at and that produce actual results that benefit your organization.

Join me on this adventure today! I’ll see you inside the course.


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Instructor Details

Markus Amanto

Markus Amanto is a well renowned author, speaker and trainer from Sweden. He has worked with improving leaders, teams and organizations in Asia, Europe and North America for over 30 years. 

His books include "The Leadership School - Who's Really in the Driver's Seat" and "The Basics of Group Dynamics" (currently available in Swedish only). 

He has held multiple positions as a manager. When he worked as a sales representative he built a sales team of over 400 people spanning the Nordic countries. 

He started his own consulting business in 1998 and has worked as a certified trainer for UGL-trainings for several years. He is also a certified user of SDI® (Strength Deployment Inventory). He is also trained in emotional debriefing, psychosynthesis and has also participated in Anthony Robbins Mastery University. 

Clients have included The University of Stockholm, Nasdaq, Kongsberg Automotive, Pitney Bowes, Tetra Pak, AstraZeneca, KPMG, ALMI and International Council of Swedish Industry (NIR).

Markus is fluent in Swedish, English, Finnish and Spanish. He is also able to communicate well in Danish and Norwegian. 

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Reviews

4.6

3,850 ratings on Udemy

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By David Cameron on 9/17/2025

This is the 2nd class I've done from Marcus, and he is awesome! I love the way he presents and the information is pertinent and relevant. Thank you for always sharing excellent, well presented content. :)

By Rinlada Ninlamot on 7/15/2024

Very clear explanation and I liked how the lessons are divided into short videos. Sheets are provided for practice. The course has also been updated to match the current situation with virtual meetings.

By Yves Willi Poci Banks Leite Belli on 4/14/2024

It is not the first course of Markus that I attend to. He is very engaging and even if the topic sounds too common sense he can bring valuable tips and insights to the discussion. I can clearly say that it was worth my time and I am now better prepared to develop better meetings.

By Rachel Clark on 8/21/2023

This course was relatively quick and to-the-point, but I think it could have been a bit shorter, for what the instructor was trying to get across to us. There were valuable points made that I will take to work with me, and keep in mind throughout meetings I host in the future, and when I'm just interacting with people at work (generally). I'm glad to have taken this quick course.

By Glynys Thomas on 8/17/2023

Yes, I am a manager for a small team and required to take this course as part of a company manager training. Found the extra resources very helpful and the structure and emphasis throughout very useful to recognize and apply to my ongoing needs in planning and managing both formal and informal business and professional meetings.

By Sibongile Gama on 4/22/2023

Beautiful and informative course. It has given me insight ito running meetings. I must agree, I used to feel like "I'm breaking rules" when cancelling a scheduled meeting due to a course that requires urgent attention, or because there's no need. I'm relieved!

By Anonymized User on 4/13/2023

This is a great series, although a good portion of this is a bit of common sense. However, I think that many managers and leads tend to forget this as they feel that blank space or Dead Air needs to be filled with something.

By Tina Rosel Rigdon on 7/25/2020

The instructor was knowledgebale and explaint well including sample. Due to COVID I really appreciate the input about online meetings which will help me enourmously. It is a great training for new managers without prior experience. The techniques, reflection, guides and samples will help me a lot.

By Glenn Chambers on 11/25/2019

Very interesting. I learned a lot about having effective meetings especially on managing expectations and the meeting structure. This will defiantly help me create better meetings. The presenter was very clear.

By Nina Hjälte on 10/24/2017

positive attitude, clear message. but a Little bit to Quick when it comes to the written Words, they dissapear to qickly sometimes and you have to go back if you want to write them down.

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